HMS Mohawk

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

• HMS Mohawk (1756) was a 6-gun sloop launched at Oswego on the Great Lakes in 1756; the French seized her and seven other vessels of the Canadian Great Lakes Squadron when Fort Oswego surrendered to General Montcalm that same year.^[1]
• HMS Mohawk (1759) was a 16-gun snow, constructed in 1759, that participated in the Battle of the Thousand Islands, during the French and Indian War. She was lost in 1764.^[2]
• HMS Mohawk was a Massachusetts privateer launched in 1781 that HMS Enterprise captured in 1782 and that the Royal Navy briefly took into service, before selling her in 1783.^[3] She then became a slaver and merchant vessel, before becoming a British privateer in 1797. The French captured her in the Mediterranean in 1801 and she served the French Navy until she was sold at Toulon in 1814.^[4]
• HMS Mohawk (1795) was a schooner listed in 1795 and operating on the Great Lakes out of Kingston, Ontario. She was condemned in 1803.^[2]
• HMS Mowhawk was a sloop listed in 1798. Nothing more is known of her.^[2]
• HMS Mohawk was the American navy's 12-gun brig Viper captured in 1813 and sold in 1814.^[5]
• HMS Mohawk was to have been an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop but she was renamed HMS Ontario before being launched in 1813. She was sold in 1832.^[6]
• HMS Mohawk (1843) was a paddle-vessel launched in 1843 and sold in 1852.
• HMS Mohawk (1856) was a Vigilant-class wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1856. She was sold in 1862 to the Emperor of China and renamed Pekin.
• HMS Mohawk (1886) was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.^[7]
• HMS Mohawk (1907) was a Tribal-class destroyer launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.^[8]
• HMS Mohawk (F31) 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 (F125) was a Tribal-class frigate launched in 1962 and sold for scrapping in 1980.

Citations and references

Citations

References

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• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M, eds. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5. 
• Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0380-7. 
• Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006. 
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1. 
• Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042