The sixth MOHAWK, of 270 ft., was built in 1907 as a Torpedo Boat Destroyer, of 865 tons and was armed with 5 x 12 pdrs and 2 x 18 inch torpedo tubes. In 1914 she was attached to the 6th Destroyer Flotilla and was a tender to HMS ATTENTIVE.

Shortly after this she was commanded by Commander E.R.G.R. EVANS, CB, (Evans of the Broke) and was employed on the Dover Patrol until severely damaged after striking one of the first German mines laid in the area.

Launched on 15 Mar 1907, at Messrs. J. S. White and Co., at Cowes, she was one of a then new class of ocean-going torpedo-boat destroyers, with five turbine engines developing 14,500 h.p. and steam generated in six White-Forster boilers, heated by oil fuel, she was said to have produced 33-34 knots in trials. Being built not only by the Admiralty, but by competitive civilian companies these vessels were undergoing an almost continual process of improvements in the period leading up to and during WWI.

Photograph courtesy of First commission book for the Eighth HMS MOHAWK

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