HMS Mohawk (F31)

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HMS Mohawk (L-31/F-31/G-31) was a Tribal-class destroyer laid down by John I. Thornycroft and Company at Woolston in Southampton on 16 July 1936, launched on 5 October 1937 and commissioned on 7 September 1938. Mohawk served on convoy duties in the North Sea, and with the 14th Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean where she participated in the Battle of Calabria in July 1940 and the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. Mohawk was struck by two torpedoes fired by the Italian Navigatori class destroyer Tarigo as she attacked an Italian convoy and sank off Kerkennah Island in eastern Tunisia on 16 April 1941 with the loss of 41 of her crew. (see Battle of the Tarigo Convoy)

See HMS Mohawk for other ships of this name.

Tribal class destroyer (1936)

Royal Navy

Afridi | Ashanti | Bedouin | Cossack | Eskimo | Gurkha | Maori | Mashona | Matabele | Mohawk | Nubian | Punjabi | Sikh | Somali | Tartar | Zulu

Royal Canadian Navy

Athabaskan (i) | Athabaskan (ii) | Cayuga | Haida | Huron | Iroquois | Micmac | Nootka

Royal Australian Navy

Arunta | Bataan | Warramunga

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