HMS Mohawk

Thirteen ships 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 and captured by the French 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.
• 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.^[2] She then became a 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.^[3]
• HMS Mohawk (1795) was a schooner listed in 1795 and operating on the Great Lakes out of Kingston, Ontario. She was condemned in 1803.
• HMS Mohawk was the American navy's 12-gun brig Viper captured in 1813 and sold in 1814.^[4]
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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

1. Hepper (1794), p.40.
2. Winfield (2007), p.292.
3. Winfield and Roberts (2015), p. 176.
4. Winfield (2008), p.350.

References

• 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