HMS Mohawk

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Thirteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mohawk, after the Mohawk, an indigenous tribe of North America:

• HMS Mohawk was a 6-gun sloop launched in 1756 and captured by the French in 1756.
• HMS Mohawk was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1759 and lost in 1764.
• HMS Mohawk was an 18-gun sloop purchased in 1782 and sold in 1783.
• HMS Mohawk was a schooner listed in 1795 and condemned in 1803.
• HMS Mohawk was a sloop in service in 1798.
• HMS Mohawk was an 18-gun brig sold in 1814. She may previously have been HMS Viper.
• HMS Mohawk was to have been an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched, but she was renamed HMS Ontario before being launched in 1813. She was sold in 1832.
• HMS Mohawk was a paddle-vessel launched in 1843 and sold in 1852.
• HMS Mohawk was a wooden screw gun vessel launched in 1856. She was sold in 1862 to the Emperor of China and renamed Pekin.
• HMS Mohawk was a Torpedo Cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.
• HMS Mohawk was a Tribal class destroyer launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.
• HMS Mohawk was a Tribal-class destroyer launched in 1937. She was torpedoed by an Italian destroyer in 1941 and was subsequently sunk by HMS Janus.
• HMS Mohawk was a Tribal class frigate launched in 1962 and sold for scrapping in 1980.