List of World War II Ships - C

C

Ship Country Class and type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate
Cabana USA Evarts class destroyer escort 1,140 9 July 1943 scrapped 1947
Cabot USA Independence class light carrier 11,000 24 July 1943 decommissioned 21 January 1955, sold to Spain as Dedalo 1967, scrapped 2002
Cairo UK C class light cruiser 4,200 24 September 1919 lost 12 August 1942
Calcaterra USA Edsall class destroyer escort 1,250 17 November 1943 scrapped 1974
Calcutta UK C class light cruiser 4,200 21 August 1919 lost 1 June 1941
Caldas Colombia destroyer 1,219 former Tejo (Portugal)
HMS/HMCS Caldwell USA
UK
Canada
Town class destroyer 1,190 24 September 1940 (former USS Hale), to RCN 1942 scrapped 1944
USS Caldwell USA Benson class destroyer 1,620 10 June 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1966
Caledon UK C class light cruiser 4,180 6 March 1917 scrapped 1948
California USA Tennessee class battleship 32,600 10 August 1921 Decommissioned 14 February 1947, scrapped 1959
Callaghan USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 27 November 1943 sunk 28 July 1945
Calypso UK C class light cruiser 4,180 6 March 1917 scrapped Jan 1948
Cameron USA
UK
Town class destroyer 1,190 24 September 1940 (former USS Welles) constructive loss 5 December 1940
Camp USA Edsall class destroyer escort 1,250 16 September 1943 to South Vietnam 1971, to Philippines 1976
Campania UK escort aircraft carrier 11,420 7 March 1944 Decommissioned 30 December 1945, scrapped 1955
Campbeltown USA
UK
Netherlands
Town class destroyer 1,190 from USN 9 September 1940 (former USS Buchanan), to Netherlands March-Sept 1941 expended as bomb-ship at St Nazaire, 29 March 1942
HMAS Canberra Australia County class heavy cruiser 9,850 10 July 1928 scuttled 9 August 1942
USS Canberra USA Baltimore class heavy cruiser 17,200 14 October 1943 decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1980
Canfield USA Evarts class destroyer escort 1,140 22 July 1943 scrapped 1947
Cannon USA
Brazil
Cannon class destroyer escort 1,240 26 Sepr 1943 to Brazil 19 December 1944 as Baependi
Cape Esperance USA Casablanca-class escort carrier 10,400 9 April 1944 scrapped 1959
Cape Gloucester USA Commencement Bay-class escort carrier 10,900 5 March 1945 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1971
Caperton USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 30 June 1943 decommissioned 1960, sunk as target
Capetown UK C class light cruiser 4,200 10 April 1922 Scrapped June 1946
Capitan O'Brien Chile Capitan O'Brien class submarine 2,020 1929 1957
Capitan Thompson Chile Capitan O'Brien class submarine 2,020 1929 1958
Capps USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 23 June 1943 To Spain 1957, scrapped 1985
Caradoc UK C class light cruiser 4,180 15 June 1917 scrapped 1946
Card USA Bogue-class escort carrier 9,800 8 November 1942 scrapped 1971
Cardiff UK C class light cruiser 4,290 25 June 1917 scrapped 1946
Carinthia UK Armed Merchant Cruiser 20,277 Aug 1939 torpedoed 6 June 1940, foundered the next day
Carlisle UK C class light cruiser 4,200 11 November 1918 constructive total loss 9 October 1942, scrapped 1948
Carlson USA Evarts class destroyer escort 1,140 10 May 1943 scrapped 1946
Carmick USA Gleaves class destroyer 1,630 28 December 1942 decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1972
Carroll USA Cannon class destroyer escort 1,240 24 October 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1966
Carter USA Cannon class destroyer escort 1,240 3 May 1944 to Republic of China 1948, scrapped 1973
Casablanca USA Casablanca class escort aircraft carrier 7,800 8 July 1943 Decommissioned 10 June 1946, scrapped 1947
Case USA Mahan class destroyer 1,450 15 September 1936 scrapped 1948
Cassin USA Mahan class destroyer 1,450 21 August 1936 destroyed 7 December 1941 but "rebuilt," scrapped 1948
Cassin Young USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 31 December 1943 decommissioned 1960, museum ship at Boston, MA
Castleton USA
UK
Town class destroyer 1,190 9 September 1940 (former USS Aaron Ward) scrapped 1947
Catamarca Argentina Catamarca class destroyer 1,010 ca.1912 Sold 1959
Cates USA Cannon class destroyer escort 1,240 15 December 1943 to France 1950, scrapped 1959
Cauvery India Modified Black Swan class sloop 1,350
Cavalla United States Gato class submarine 1,525 surfaced 29 February 1944 decommissioned 1968; museum at Galveston Texas
Cecil J. Doyle USA Butler class destroyer escort 1,350 16 October 1944 decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1967
Ceres UK C class light cruiser 4,290 1 June 1917 scrapped 1946
Cervantes Argentina Cervantes class destroyer 1,522 Discarded 24 June 1961
Ceylon UK Fiji class cruiser 8,800 13 July 1943 sold to Peru 1959, renamed Colonel Bolognesi
Chacabuco Chile Presidente Errazuriz class cruiser 4,500 Discarded 1952
Chaffee USA Rudderow class destroyer escort 1,450 9 May 1944 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1948
Chambers USA Edsall class destroyer escort 1,250 24 November 1943 scrapped 1975
Champlin USA Benson class destroyer 1,620 12 September 1942 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972
Chao Ho China Chao Ho class cruiser 2,750 23 October 1911 sunk 28 September 1937
Chandler USA Clemson class destroyer-minesweeper 1,200 5 September 1919 scrapped 1946
Charger UK/
USA
Avenger class 8,200 2 October 1941 to USN 4 October 1941, sold as merchant 1947
Charles Ausburne USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 24 November 1942 to West Germany 1960, scrapped 1968
Charles E. Brannon USA Butler class destroyer escort 1,350 1 November 1944 decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1969
Charles F. Hughes USA Benson class destroyer 1,620 5 September 1940 decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1969
Charles J. Badger USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 23 July 1943 decommissioned 1957, scrapped 1974
Charles J. Kimmel USA Rudderow class destroyer escort 1,450 20 April 1944 decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1969
Charles Lawrence USA Buckley class destroyer escort 1,400 31 May 1943 scrapped 1965
Charles P. Cecil USA Gearing class destroyer 2,250 29 June 1945 to Greece 1980, scrapped 2003
Charles R. Greer USA Evarts class destroyer escort 1,140 25 June 1943 scrapped 1947
Charles R. Ware USA Gearing class destroyer 2,250 21 July 1945 decommissioned 1974, sunk as target 1981
Charles S. Sperry USA Sumner class destroyer 2,200 17 May 1944 to Chile 1974, scrapped 1990
Charlestown USA
UK
Town class destroyer 1,190 23 September 1940 (former USS Abbot) scrapped 1947
Charrette USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 18 May 1943 to Greece 1959, museum ship at Athens
Chase USA Buckley class destroyer escort 1,400 18 July 1943 scrapped 1946
Chaser UK Attacker class escort aircraft carrier 11,400 9 April 1943 (former USS Breton) Returned to USN 12 May 1946, sold into merchant service 20 December 1946 as Aagtekerk
Chatelain USA Edsall class destroyer escort 1,250 22 September 1943 scrapped 1974
Chauncey USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 31 May 1943 decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1972
Chelsea USA
UK
Canada
USSR
Town class destroyer 1,190 9 September 1940 (former USS Crowninshield) to Canada Nov 1942, to USSR July 1944 as Derzkiy
Chenango USA Sangamon-class escort carrier 11,400 20 June 1941 as oiler AO-31; 19 September 1942 as ACV-28 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1960
Chervona Ukraina Soviet Union Svetlana class light cruiser 7,600 3 October 1913 Sunk 12 November 1941
Chester USA Northampton class heavy cruiser 9,200 24 June 1930 scrapped 1959
Chester T. O'Brien USA Butler class destroyer escort 1,350 3 July 1944 decommissioned 1959, scrapped 1974
Chesterfield USA
UK
Town class destroyer 1,190 9 September 1940 (former USS Welborn C. Wood) scrapped 1947
Chevalier (I) USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 20 June 1942 sunk 7 October 1943
Chevalier (II) USA Gearing class destroyer 2,250 9 January 1945 to South Korea 1977
Chew USA Wickes class destroyer 1,190 12 December 1918 scrapped 1946
Chicago (I) USA Northampton class heavy cruiser 9,200 9 March 1931 sunk 30 January 1943
Chicago (II) USA Baltimore class heavy cruiser 17,200 10 January 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1964, decommissioned 1980, scrapped 1992
Chikuma Japan Tone class heavy cruiser 15,200 30 May 1939 sunk 25 October 1944
Chitose Japan Chitose class aircraft carrier 11,190 25 July 1938 sunk 25 October 1944
Chiyoda Japan Chitose class aircraft carrier 11,190 15 December 1938 sunk 25 October 1944
Chōkai Japan Takao class heavy cruiser 15,781 1932 sunk 25 October 1944
Christopher USA
Brazil
Cannon class destroyer escort 1,240 23 October 1943 to Brazil 19 December 1944 as Benevente
Churchill USA
UK
USSR
Town class destroyer 1,190 9 September 1940 (former USS Herndon) to USSR as Deyatelny 16 July 1944, sunk 16 January 1945
Chūyō Japan Taiyō class aircraft carrier 17,830 25 November 1942 sunk 4 December 1943
Cincinnati USA Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 1 January 1924 scrapped 1946
Clare USA
UK
Town class destroyer 1,190 9 September 1940 (former USS Abel P. Upshur) scrapped 1945
Clarence K. Bronson USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 11 June 1943 to Turkey 1967, scrapped 1987
Clarence L. Evans USA Cannon class destroyer escort 1,240 25 June 1944 to France 1952, scrapped 1960
Clark USA Porter class destroyer leader 1,850 20 May 1936 scrapped 1946
Claxton (I) USA/
UK/
Canada
Wickes class destroyer 1,190 13 September 1919 to UK 5 December 1940 as HMS (later HMCS) Salisbury
Claxton (II) USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 8 December 1942 To West Germany 1959
Clemson USA Clemson class sea plane tender, destroyer & high speed transport 1,250 29 December 1919 Decommissioned 12 October 1945
Cleveland USA Cleveland class light cruiser 10,000 15 June 1942 decommissioned 7 February 1947, scrapped 1960
Clive India 24 class sloop 1,748 20 April 1920 Scrapped 1947
Cloues USA Evarts class destroyer escort 1,140 10 August 1943 scrapped 1947
Coates USA Rudderow class destroyer escort 1,450 24 January 1944 decommissioned 1970, sunk as target 1971
Cockrill USA Edsall class destroyer escort 1,250 24 December 1943 decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1974
Codrington UK A class destroyer leader 1,350 4 June 1930 sunk 27 July 1940
Cofer USA Buckley class destroyer escort 1,400 18 January 1944 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1968
Coffman USA Cannon class destroyer escort 1,240 27 December 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973
Coghlan USA Benson class destroyer 1,620 10 July 1942 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1974
Cogswell USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 17 August 1943 to Turkey 1969, scrapped 1980
Colahan USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 23 August 1943 sunk as target 1966
Colbert France Suffren class heavy cruiser 10,000 4 March 1931 scuttled 27 November 1942
Cole USA Wickes class destroyer 1,190 19 June 1919 scrapped 1947
Colhoun (I) USA Wickes class destroyer, converted to a fast transport 1,060 13 June 1918 sunk 30 August 1942
Colhoun (II) USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 8 July 1944 Sunk 6 April 1945
Collett USA Sumner class destroyer 2,200 16 May 1944 to Argentina 1974
Colombo UK C class light cruiser 4,200 18 June 1919 scrapped 1948
Colossus UK Colossus class aircraft carrier 13,200 16 December 1944 transferred to France, renamed Arromanches 6 August 1946
HMCS Columbia USA
Canada
Town class destroyer 1,190 24 September 1940 (former USS Haraden) scrapped 1945
USS Columbia USA Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 29 July 1942 scrapped 1959
Columbus USA Baltimore class heavy cruiser 17,200 8 June 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1962, scrapped 1977
Combattante Free French Hunt class Escort destroyer 1,050 30 December 1942 (former HMS Haldon) sunk 23 February 1945
Commencement Bay USA Commencement Bay class escort carrier 11,373 27 November 1944 Decommissioned 30 November 1946, scrapped 1971
Compton USA Sumner class destroyer 2,200 4 November 1944 to Brazil 1972, scrapped 1990
Concord USA Omaha class light cruiser 7,050 3 November 1923 scrapped 1947
Cone USA Gearing class destroyer 2,250 18 August 1945 to Pakistan 1982, scrapped 1998
Conklin USA Butler class destroyer escort 1,350 21 April 1944 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972
Conner (I) USA/
UK
Caldwell class destroyer 1,125 12 January 1918 To UK as HMS Leeds, 23 October 1940
Conner (II) USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 8 June 1943 to Greece 1959, scrapped 1997
Connolly USA Evarts class destroyer escort 1,140 8 July 1944 scrapped 1947
ORP Conrad ex. HMS Danae UK, then Poland D class cruiser 4,850 4 October 1944 returned to Royal Navy 28 September 1946, scrapped Mar 1948
Conte di Cavour Italy Conte di Cavour class battleship 26,140 1915 Decommissioned 18 May 1928
Converse USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 20 November 1942 to Spain 1959, scrapped 1988
Conway (ex-Craven) (I) USA/
UK
Caldwell class destroyer 1,125 19 October 1918 To UK as HMS Lewes, 23 October 1940
Conway (II) USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 9 October 1942 sunk as target 1970
Cony USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 30 October 1942 sunk as target 1970
Conyngham USA Mahan class destroyer 1,450 4 November 1936 scuttled 1948 after A-bomb test
Coolbaugh USA Buckley class destroyer escort 1,400 15 October 1943 decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1973
Cooner USA Cannon class destroyer escort 1,240 21 August 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973
Cooper USA Sumner class destroyer 2,200 9 February 1944 sunk 3 December 1944
Copahee USA Bogue-class escort carrier 9,800 15 June 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961
Coral Sea (later Anzio) USA Casablanca-class escort carrier 10,400 27 August 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959
Corbesier USA Butler class destroyer escort 1,350 31 March 1944 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1974
Core USA Bogue-class escort carrier 9,800 10 December 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1971
Cornwallis India Cornwallis class sloop 1,290 1921 (former HMS Lychnis) Scrapped 1946
Corregidor USA Casablanca-class escort carrier 10,400 31 August 1943 scrapped 1959
Corry USA Gleaves class destroyer 1,630 18 December 1941 sunk 6 June 1944
Cossack UK Tribal class destroyer 2,020 7 June 1938 sunk 24 October 1941
Coronel Germany auxiliary cruiser 12,700 13 August 1938 ran aground 21 November 1984
Corrientes Argentina Buenos Aires class destroyer 1,375 Lost 3 October 1941
Cotten USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 24 July 1943 decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1975
Courageous UK Glorious class aircraft carrier 22,500 4 November 1916 sunk 17 September 1939
Courbet France
Free French
Courbet class battleship 23,200 Nov 1913 scuttled as a "Gooseberry" breakwater 6 June 1944
Cowell (I) USA/
UK/
USSR
Wickes class destroyer 1,190 17 March 1919 to RN 23 September 1940 as HMS Brighton (later to USSR as Zharkiy)
Cowell (II) USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 23 August 1943 to Argentina 1971, scrapped 1982
Cowpens USA Independence class light carrier 11,000 28 May 1943 decommissioned 13 January 1947, scrapped 1960
Coventry UK C class light cruiser 4,290 21 February 1918 lost 14 September 1942
Cowie USA Gleaves class destroyer 1,630 1 June 1942 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972
Crane USA Wickes class destroyer 1,190 18 April 1919 scrapped 1946
Craven USA Gridley class destroyer 1,590 2 September 1937 scrapped 1947
Croatan USA Bogue-class escort carrier 9,800 28 April 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1971
Croix de Lorraine UK
Free French
River class frigate 1,370 25 September 1944 (former HMS Strule) Decommissioned 1961
Cronin USA Buckley class destroyer escort 1,400 5 May 1944 sunk as target 1971
Crosby USA Wickes class destroyer and destroyer-transport 1,190 24 January 1919 scrapped 1946
Cross USA Butler class destroyer escort 1,350 8 January 1945 decommissioned 1958, scrapped 1968
Crouter USA Evarts class destroyer escort 1,140 25 May 1943 scrapped 1947
Crowninshield USA
UK
Canada
USSR
Wickes class destroyer 1,190 24 July 1919 to RN 9 September 1940 as HMS (later HMCS) Chelsea, then to USSR as Derzkiy
Crowley USA Evarts class destroyer escort 1,140 25 March 1944 scrapped 1947
Cuba Cuba sloop 2,055 c.1911 stricken 1971
Cummings USA Mahan class destroyer 1,450 25 November 1936 scrapped 1947
Curacoa UK C class light cruiser 4,290 18 February 1918 lost 2 October 1942
Curlew UK C class light cruiser 4,290 14 December 1917 lost 26 May 1940
Currier USA Buckley class destroyer escort 1,400 1 February 1944 sunk as target 1967
Cushing (I) USA Mahan class destroyer 1,450 28 August 1936 sunk 13 November 1942
Cushing (II) USA Fletcher class destroyer 2,050 17 January 1944 to Brazil 1961, scrapped 1982

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