Thirteen vessels of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Mohawk'', after the

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, an indigenous tribe of North America: * was a 6-gun sloop launched at Oswego on the

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in 1756; the French seized her and seven other vessels of the Canadian Great Lakes Squadron when

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surrendered to General Montcalm that same year. * was a 16-gun

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, constructed in 1759, that participated in the

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, during the

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. 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

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until she was sold at Toulon in 1814. * was a schooner listed in 1795 and operating on the

out of Kingston,

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. 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.

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