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.
• 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.^[1]
• 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. 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.
• HMS Mohawk (1795) was a schooner listed in 1795 and operating on the Great Lakes out of Kingston, Ontario. She was condemned in 1803.^[1]
• HMS Mowhawk was a sloop listed in 1798. Nothing more is known of her.^[1]
• HMS Mohawk was the American navy's 12-gun brig Viper, formerly the USS Ferret, that was captured on 17 January 1813. She was sold in 1814.
• 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.^[2]
• HMS Mohawk (1843) was a paddle-vessel launched in 1843 and sold in 1852.^[3]
• 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.
• HMS Mohawk (1907) was a Tribal-class destroyer launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.
• HMS Mohawk (F31) was a Tribal-class destroyer launched in 1937. She was sunk in April 1941 during the action off Sfax.
• HMS Mohawk (F125) was a Tribal-class frigate launched in 1962 and sold for scrap in 1981.

Citations

1. Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 265.
2. Winfield (2008), p. 306.
3. Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 217.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.