HMS Mohawk (F31)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Mohawk.

HMS Mohawk
Career
Class and type:	Tribal class destroyer
Name:	HMS Mohawk
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston
Laid down:	16 July 1936
Launched:	15 October 1937
Commissioned:	7 September 1938
Fate:	lost 16 April 1941, torpedoed by Italian destroyer Tarigo
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,850 tons (standard), 2,520 tons (full)
Length:	377 ft (115 m) o/a
Beam:	36 ft 6 in (11.13 m)
Draught:	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion:	Three x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, steam turbines on two shafts 44,000 shp
Speed:	36 kt
Range:	524 tons fuel oil 5,700 nmi at 15 kt
Complement:	219
Armament:	As designed; 8 x 4.7 in L/45 QF Mark XII, twin mount CP Mk.XIX 4 x QF 2 pdr, quad mount Mk.VII 8 x 0.5 in Vickers machine gun, quad mount Mk.II 4 x tubes for 21 in torpedoes Mk.IX 1 x rack, 2 x throwers for depth charges War modifications; 6 x 4.7 in L/45 QF Mk.XII, 3 x twin mounting CP Mk.XIX 1 x twin 4 in L/45 QF Mk.XVI, mounting HA Mk.XIX 4 x QF 2 pdr, quad mount Mk.VII ≤4 x single and twin 20 mm Oerlikon 4 x tubes for 21 in torpedoes Mk.IX 1 x rack, 2 x throwers for DCs

HMS Mohawk (L-31/F-31/G-31) was a Tribal-class destroyer laid down by John I. Thornycroft and Company at Woolston, Hampshire on 16 July 1936, launched on 5 October 1937 and commissioned on 7 September 1938. Mohawk served on convoy duties in the North Sea, and with the 14th Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean where she participated in the Battle of Calabria in July 1940 and the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. Mohawk was struck by two torpedoes fired by the Italian Navigatori class destroyer Tarigo as she attacked an Italian convoy and sank off the Kerkennah Islands in eastern Tunisia on 16 April 1941 with the loss of 43 of her crew.

References

• Brice, Martin H. (1971). The Tribals. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0245-2. 
• English, John (2001). Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-95-0.