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{{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 nation|Mohawk]], an [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous tribe]] of North America: * {{HMS|Mohawk|1756}} was a 6-gun [[Sloop-of-war|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 [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm|Montcalm]] that same year. * {{HMS|Mohawk|1759}} was a 16-gun [[Snow (ship)|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}} * [[Mohawk (1781 ship)|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 [[slave trading|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|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}} * [[USS Viper (1806)|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.
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