1 Fifth-rate frigate 1 armed merchant ship The Action of 20 November 1779 was a naval engagement of the European theatre of the American Revolutionary War that took place in the Atlantic.

Hussar came up next to the ship the next day and saw the Spanish flag that was being hoisted.

After a number of broadsides and realising resistance was useless, the Spaniard surrendered after nearly 45 minutes of action.

[1] The Spanish ship was the Nuestra Senora del Buen Consejo, a Peruvian registered ship from Lima pierced for 64 guns but mounting only 26 twelve-pounders with a crew of 120 sailors and marines.

[2] Buen Consejo carried a valuable cargo consisting of copper, pewter, cocoa, Jesuit's bark, minerals and private goods.