HMS Mediator (1782)
 HMS Mediator was a Roebuck-class 44-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy. She was built and served during the American War of Independence but was reduced to a storeship and renamed HMS Camel in 1788. She spent the French Revolutionary and part of the Napoleonic Wars in this capacity before being broken up in 1810.Built as the revival of a design that had fallen out of favour as naval architecture developed Mediator was intended to operate in the shallow waters of the North American coastline.