HMS Mohawk (F125)
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| Name: | HMS Mohawk |
| Builder: | Vickers |
| Laid down: | 23 December 1960 |
| Launched: | 5 April 1962 |
| Commissioned: | 29 November 1963 |
| Decommissioned: | 1980 |
| Identification: | Pennant number F125 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tribal-class frigate |
| Service record | |
| Part of: | Naval On-call Force of the Mediterranean (1977) |
| Operations: | Beira Patrol (1973) |
HMS Mohawk was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy in service from 1963. She was named after a tribe of Native Americans located in southeast Canada and New York State. Mohawk was scrapped in 1983.
Mohawk was built by Vickers, of Barrow-in-Furness, at a cost of £4,705,000. She was launched on 5 April 1962 and commissioned on 29 November 1963. Her construction had been disrupted by a labour dispute.
In 1965, Mohawk deployed to the Persian Gulf. She joined the Beira Patrol, intended to enforce an oil blockade of Rhodesia, in 1966. The following year, Mohawk deployed to the West Indies and the Mediterranean, becoming the Gibraltar guardship in 1968. By 1969, Mohawk had returned to the West Indies.
Mohawk underwent a conversion to accommodate her planned utilisation as a training ship. The refit entailed the removal of Mohawk's aft 4.5-inch gun, but the process was abandoned. In 1973, Mohawk and the destroyer Antrim relieved the destroyer Devonshire and frigate Lincoln in the Far East Squadron. Mohawk contributed to the Beira Patrol before returning to Britain in 1973. Later that year she embarked on a tour of the Norwegian coast. She was called onto assist in the search for Gaul, a fishing vessel that went missing in the Barents Sea.
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