HMS Mohawk (1759)

HMS Mohawk was a snow constructed on the Great Lakes in North America that participated in the Battle of the Thousand Islands during the French and Indian War. Mohawk was launched in 1759; historians dispute her origin, with one stating that she was initially a French vessel under construction at Fort Niagara before the British captured the fort. Another historian claims the snow was ordered for construction in response to the existing French naval threat on the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. Mohawk was wrecked in 1764.