HMS Mohawk (1886)

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HMS Mohawk Sydney 1897 AWM 302219.jpeg
HMS Mohawk anchored in Sydney Harbour in 1897
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Mohawk
BuilderJ. & G. Thompson, Glasgow
Laid down2 March 1885
Launched6 February 1886
FateSold to Garnham for breaking up at Chatham on 4 April 1905
General characteristics
Class and type Archer-class torpedo cruiser
NotesArcher class cruiser diagrams Brasseys 1888.jpg

HMS Mohawk was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser of the Royal Navy, built by J. & G. Thompson at Glasgow and launched on 6 February 1886.[1]

Her first service was on the Cape Station between 1890 and 1892.[2] In 1893, Mohawk was serving on the North America and West Indies Station when civil disorder broke out on the island of Dominica. A party of Marines and sailors were landed to assist the local police in stopping the rioting. Four rioters were killed and several injured on both sides, including the commanding officer of Mohawk, Commander Edward Henry Bayley, before order was restored.[3]

Mohawk commenced service on the Australia Station in December 1897. During the Boxer Rebellion in China, she escorted the New South Wales Naval Brigade to Peking before commencing service on the China Station.[1] On 24 April 1901 she was paid off into the Fleet Reserve at Chatham.[4]

She was recommissioned in January 1903 by Commander Ernest Gaunt to replace the Scout on the Mediterranean Station.[5][2] In April 1904 she saw service during the Somaliland Campaign, including supplying men for the landing party that stormed and captured the forts at Illig.[6] She returned to England in 1905, and on 4 April that year was sold to Garnham for £4,850 for breaking up at Chatham.[1]

Commanding officers[]

  • Commander F. H. P. W. Freeman – until April 1901[7]
  • Commander (later Admiral) Richard Phillimore – during the 1904 Somaliland campaign[6]

Citations[]

  1. ^ a b c Bastock, p.108.
  2. ^ a b "HMS Mohawk (1886) CC (9th)". Britainsnavy.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  3. ^ Clowes p. 413.
  4. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36439. London. 26 April 1901. p. 10.
  5. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36940. London. 2 December 1902. p. 6.
  6. ^ a b "The capture of the forts at Illig from the Mad Mullah, 21 April 1904", Paul G Lane. Orders & Medals Research Society Journal (Volume 59, number 2) June 2020. pp 152-156.
  7. ^ "Naval and Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36390. London. 28 February 1901. p. 6.

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