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Dates: 1931 - 1941 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 Kerkennah Island in eastern Tunisia on 16 April 1941 with the loss of 43 of her crew.
Memories of HMS Mohawk
HMS Mohawk in 1967Written by John Osmond Contact this person >>  "Transiting north up the Carribean chain doing a RAS at midnight with HMS Lynx. The small island of Anguilla was undergoing civil unrest and we were passing stores and tents to Lynx for support for a shore party. All of a sudden coming across Lynx’s port bow and towards Mohawk came the French frigate Henri. She managed to go hard a port to go on the same course as us. Her stern swung feet away under our bows as we emergency uncoupled. A near disaster. Mohawk’s OOW was disciplined. " HMS Mohawk Aden in 1965Written by John Osmond Contact this person >> "Alongside at the new jetty the Army Engineers had built(we had knocked a part of it down coming alongside). I stood in the waist in shiny white no6s waiting to go on patrol with the Army. A Landrover pulled up and a Sargeant came over the gangway and asked for the rating asigned. The QM pointed to me. He then asked to see the OOD. The OOD arrived on deck, SIR he shouted in a rage, he’s all in white, why don’t you paint a f.....g target on his back???? After getting changed into 8s he then said to me, and don’t you dare think of firing that Lanchester, it belongs in a museum!"
Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving HMS Mohawk
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82 people in our World War 2 records 
1 people in our Napoleonic Wars records
287 people in our Forces Reunited records
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