[3] Lloyd's List of 7 June 1782 reported that in the latitude of Barbados, Mohawk had captured the Adventure, Ingram or Bodkin, master, which had been sailing from Quebec to the West Indies.

Two days later, Captain John Payne of Enterprise libeled Mohawk in the Vice-Admiralty Court at New York.

[4] The Royal Navy purchased Mohawk immediately after her capture, and in November had her hull coppered at Antigua.

[2] Mohawk, of 280 tons (bm), and built in New England in 1781, entered Lloyd's Register in 1784 with J. Griffiths, master, and Scott & Co. owner.

[10] Captain John Griffith sailed from London on 13 March 1784 to gather slaves on the Gold Coast.

[14] On 10 August 1795, Mohawk, American-built, of 284 tons, Thomas King, master, left Bristol for the West African coast.

[15] James Baker, received a letter of marque on 5 January 1797 for the ship Mohawk, of 100 men, and twenty-five 3, 6, and 9-pounder cannon and one swivel gun.

[15] On 25 August 1797, Lloyd's List reported that Mohawk, Baker, master, had put into St Jago with prizes, Spanish vessels carrying a cargo of fish.

[15] The 1799 Lloyd's Register listed Mohawk's master as "Kempthorn", her burthen as 284 tons (bm), her owner as "Hunters", and her trade as Bristol to Naples.

This letter gave her burthen as 296 tons (bm), her complement as 40 men, and her armament as twenty 4, 6, and 9-pounder guns.

In June 1800, an advertisement appeared stating that Mohawk, Captain James Kempthorne, was prepared to sail in 10 days, without convoy, for Palermo and Naples.

[17] On 24 June 1801, a squadron under Admiral Ganteaume was on an unsuccessful mission to bring troops to Egypt when it encountered HMS Swiftsure, Captain Benjamin Hallowell, and captured her.

[19] The French Navy commissioned Mohawk at Toulon, under her existing name, and effective from the date of her capture,[7] initially under Poncel.

[20] Between 3 December 1801 and 29 January 1803, during the Peace of Amiens, Mohawk was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Joseph-Antoine Ganteaume.

[22] Ganteaume, promoted to capitaine de frégate on 6 March 1805,[21] was still in command of Mohawk on 23 to 24 May 1805, when she captured a British privateer named Neptune, off Cap Roux (between Frejus and Cannes).

Apollo gave chase and exchanged fire with Mohawk for two hours before giving up and sailing back to her prize.

[27] Captain Bridges Taylor, of Apollo described Mérinos as a relatively new frigate-built storeship of 850 tons, pierced for 36 guns but carrying only twenty 8-pounders.

She had a crew of 126 men under the command of captaine de frégate Honoré Coardonan, holder of the Légion d'Honneur.