HMS Mohawk explained

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

• 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.
• 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 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.
• was a schooner listed in 1795 and operating on the Great Lakes out of Kingston, Ontario. She was condemned in 1803.
• HMS Mowhawk was a sloop listed in 1798. Nothing more is known of her.
• 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 but she was renamed before being launched in 1813. She was sold in 1832.
• was a paddle-vessel launched in 1843 and sold in 1852.
• was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1856. She was sold in 1862 to the Emperor of China and renamed Pekin.
• was an launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.
• was a destroyer launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.
• was a destroyer launched in 1937. She was sunk in April 1941 during the action off Sfax.
• was a launched in 1962 and sold for scrap in 1981.

References

• • Book: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. 2008. 978-1-86176-246-7.