# HMS Mohawk > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/HMS_Mohawk > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/HMS_Mohawk.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Mohawk > Source revision: 1345240021 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} Thirteen vessels of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) have borne the name '''HMS ''Mohawk''''', after the [Mohawk](/source/Mohawk_nation), an [indigenous tribe](/source/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas) of North America: * {{HMS|Mohawk|1756}} was a 6-gun [sloop](/source/Sloop-of-war) launched at Oswego on the [Great Lakes](/source/Great_Lakes) in 1756; the French seized her and seven other vessels of the British squadron on Lake Ontario when [Fort Oswego](/source/Fort_Oswego) surrendered to General [Montcalm](/source/Louis-Joseph_de_Montcalm) that same year. * {{HMS|Mohawk|1759}} was a 16-gun [snow](/source/Snow_(ship)), constructed in 1759, that participated in the [Battle of the Thousand Islands](/source/Battle_of_the_Thousand_Islands), during the [French and Indian War](/source/French_and_Indian_War). She was lost in 1764.{{sfnp|Colledge|Warlow|2006|p=265}} * [HMS ''Mohawk''](/source/Mohawk_(1781_ship)) 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](/source/slave_trading) 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](/source/French_Navy) until she was sold at Toulon in 1814. * {{HMS|Mohawk|1795}} was a [schooner](/source/schooner) listed in 1795 and operating on the [Great Lakes](/source/Great_Lakes) out of [Kingston](/source/Kingston%2C_Ontario), [Ontario](/source/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''](/source/USS_Viper_(1806)) 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](/source/destroyer) launched in 1907 and sold in 1919. * {{HMS|Mohawk|F31}} was a {{sclass2|Tribal|destroyer (1936)|0}} [destroyer](/source/destroyer) launched in 1937. She was sunk in April 1941 during the [action off Sfax](/source/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}} {{Ship index}} {{Italic title prefixed|3}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mohawk}} Category:Royal Navy ship names --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [HMS Mohawk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Mohawk) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Mohawk?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.