Royal Navy — Destroyer class
C-class destroyer (1943)
The class in numbers
- 34 Planned
- 32 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navies
- Royal Navy 34
Royal Canadian Navy 6 - In commission
- 1944 - 1972
- Preceded by
- W and Z-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Weapon-class destroyer
- Operators
- Canada, Pakistan
- Subclasses
- Ca-, Ch-, Co-, Cr-
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Ca class
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,530 long tons (2,571 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 113 mm (4.4 in)
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4.5-inch (113 mm) L/45 Mk IV guns on mounts CP Mk.V
- 2 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV
- 4 × Single QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk.XVI guns
- 8 (2 × 4) tubes for 21 inch torpedoes Mk.IX
- 80 Depth charges
Ch , Co & Cr class
- Displacement, standard
- 1,900 long tons (1,930 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,535 long tons (2,576 t)
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4.5-inch (113-mm) L/45 Mk IV guns on mounts CP Mk.V
- 2 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV
- 2 × single 2-pounder
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMCS Assiniboine (I18) | I18 | 1939 | Scrapped 1945 |
| HMCS Crescent | R16 | 1945 | Scrapped 1971 |
| HMCS Fraser (H48) | H48 | 1932 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMCS Ottawa (H60) | H60 | 1938 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMCS Restigouche (H00) | H00 | 1938 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMCS St. Laurent (H83) | H83 | 1937 | Scrapped 1947 |
| HMS Caesar (R07) | R07 | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 |
| HMS Cairo | 1919 | Sunk 1942 | |
| HMS Calcutta (D82) | D82 | 1919 | Sunk 1941 |
| HMS Caledon (D53) | D53 | 1917 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Calypso (D61) | D61 | 1917 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Cambrian (R85) | R85 | 1944 | Scrapped 1971 |
| HMS Capetown | 1922 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| HMS Caprice | R01 | 1944 | 1979 |
| HMS Caradoc (D60) | D60 | 1917 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Cardiff (D58) | D58 | 1917 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Carlisle (D67) | D67 | 1918 | Scrapped 1943 |
| HMS Carron (R30) | R30 | 1944 | Scrapped 1967 |
| HMS Carysfort (R25) | R25 | 1945 | Scrapped 1970 |
| HMS Cassandra (R62) | R62 | 1944 | 1967 |
| HMS Cavalier | R73 | 1944 | 1977 |
| HMS Cavendish (R15) | R15 | 1944 | Scrapped 1967 |
| HMS Ceres (D59) | D59 | 1917 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Chaplet | R52 | 1945 | 1965 |
| HMS Charity (R29) | R29 | 1945 | Scrapped |
| HMS Chequers | R61 | 1945 | Transferred 1966 |
| HMS Cheviot | R90 | 1945 | Scrapped 1962 |
| HMS Chevron | R51 | 1945 | Scrapped 1969 |
| HMS Chieftain | R36 | 1946 | Scrapped 1961 |
| HMS Childers (R91) | R91 | 1945 | 1963 |
| HMS Chivalrous | R21 | 1946 | Scrapped 1959 |
| HMS Colombo | 1919 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| HMS Constance (R71) | R71 | 1945 | 1956 |
| HMS Coventry (D43) | D43 | 1918 | Scuttled 1942 |
| HMS Creole (R82) | R82 | 1946 | Scrapped 1982 |
| HMS Crispin (R68) | R68 | 1946 | Scrapped 1982 |
| HMS Crusader (R20) | R20 | 1945 | Scrapped 1964 |
| HMS Curacoa (D41) | D41 | 1918 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Curlew (D42) | D42 | 1917 | Sunk 1940 |
| HMS Kempenfelt (I18) | I18 | 1939 | Scrapped 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from C-class destroyer (1943) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.