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USS Mohawk (I)

Frigate:
  • Laid down, 8 May 1814, by Henry Eckford, Sacketts Harbor, N.Y.
  • Launched, 11 June 1814
  • Placed in service in June 1814, CAPT. Jacob Jones in command
  • Mohawk departed Sacketts Harbor, 31 July 1814, with COMO. Isaac Chauncey's squadron to challenge the British squadron of CAPT. Sir James Yeo, RN, for control of the Lake Ontario during the crucial Niagara campaign of 1814
  • Sailing up to the head of the lake seeking the English squadron, the American ships found the enemy had retired to Kingston, Ontario
  • In mid-July, Mohawk, in company with full-rigged ships Superior, General Pike, and Madison began a blockade of the Canadian port, remaining there for 45 days, providing valuable support for the army of Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown in his campaign against the English posts along the Niagara frontier
  • On 21 September Mohawk helped transport General Izard and 3,000 men from Sacketts Harbor to the Genesee River and then resumed her blockade of Kingston until the end of the month
  • With winter setting the American squadron retired to Sacketts Harbor
  • The War of 1812 ended 28 December 1814, long before the ice on the Great Lakes melted to allow further operations
  • Mohawk was then laid up in ordinary at Sacketts Harbor
  • Final Disposition, she was reported unfit for repairs in 1821 and soon after sold and broken up
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,350 t.
    Length 155'
    Beam 37'6"
    Depth of Hold 15'6"
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement 350
    Armament
    twenty-six 24-pdr guns
    sixteen 32-pdr guns
    Propulsionsail
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