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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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