The third USS Mohawk (YT‑17), later renamed USS YT-17 and USS YTL-17, was a tug that served in the United States Navy from 1898 to 1946. Mohawk was built as the civilian tug T. P. Fowler in 1893 by T. S. Marval and Company, Newburgh, New York. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy from Cornell Steamboat Company on 23 April 1898 for service in the Spanish-American War, commissioned as USS Mohawk, and assigned to the 5th Naval District.