{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} 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 British squadron on Lake Ontario 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.{{sfnp|Colledge|Warlow|2006|p=265}} * HMS ''Mohawk'' was a Massachusetts privateer launched in 1781 that {{HMS|Enterprise|1774|6}} 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.{{sfnp|Colledge|Warlow|2006|p=265}} * HMS ''Mowhawk'' was a sloop listed in 1798. Nothing more is known of her.{{sfnp|Colledge|Warlow|2006|p=265}} * 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 {{sclass|Cruizer|brig-sloop|2}} but she was renamed {{HMS|Ontario|1813|6}} before being launched in 1813. She was sold in 1832.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=306}} * {{HMS|Mohawk|1843}} was a paddle-vessel launched in 1843 and sold in 1852.{{sfnp|Colledge|Warlow|2006|p=217}} * {{HMS|Mohawk|1856}} was a {{sclass|Vigilant|gunvessel|0}} wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1856. She was sold in 1862 to the Emperor of China and renamed ''Pekin''. * {{HMS|Mohawk|1886}} was an {{sclass|Archer|torpedo cruiser|2}} launched in 1886 and sold in 1905. * {{HMS|Mohawk|1907}} was a {{sclass2|Tribal|destroyer (1905)|0}} destroyer launched in 1907 and sold in 1919. * {{HMS|Mohawk|F31}} was a {{sclass2|Tribal|destroyer (1936)|0}} destroyer launched in 1937. She was sunk in April 1941 during the action off Sfax. * {{HMS|Mohawk|F125}} was a {{sclass2|Tribal|frigate}} launched in 1962 and sold for scrap in 1981.
==Citations== {{reflist|30em}} ==References== * {{Colledge: Ships RN|year=2006}} * {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008|isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
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