# List of ships of World War II (C)

The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also list of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons. Some uncompleted Axis ships are included, out of historic interest. Ships are designated to the country under which they operated for the longest period of the Second World War, regardless of where they were built or previous service history. Submarines show submerged displacement.
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List of ships of World War II (C) :
| Ship | Country or organization | Class | Type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
| Cabana | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 9 July 1943 | scrapped 1947 |
| Cabot | United States Navy | Independence | light aircraft carrier | 11,000 | 24 July 1943 | decommissioned 21 January 1955, scrapped 2002 |
| Cachalot | Royal Navy | Grampus | submarine | 1,810 | 15 August 1938 | sunk 30 July 1941 |
| Cadiz | Royal Navy | Battle | destroyer | 2,325 | 12 April 1946 | paid off 1953 |
| Caesar | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 5 October 1944 | paid off June 1965, scrapped 1967 |
| Cairo | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,200 | 24 September 1919 | lost 12 August 1942 |
| Calcaterra | United States Navy | Edsall | destroyer escort | 1,250 | 17 November 1943 | scrapped 1974 |
| Calcutta | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,200 | 21 August 1919 | lost 1 June 1941 |
| Calcutta | Royal Indian Navy | Basset | minesweeper | 529 | 1941–1944 | 1941–1944 |
| Caldas | Colombian National Navy | Antioquia | destroyer | 1,219 | 16 May 1934 | scrapped November 1961 |
| Caldwell | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 24 September 1940 | to RCN 1942, scrapped 1944 |
| Caldwell | United States Navy | Benson | destroyer | 1,620 | 10 June 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1966 |
| Caledon | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,180 | 6 March 1917 | scrapped 1948 |
| Calendula | Royal Navy United States Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 6 May 1940 | to USA as Ready 12 March 1942, to UK 20 August 1945, paid off 1945 |
| Calgary | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 16 December 1941 | paid off 19 June 1945 |
| California | United States Navy | Tennessee | battleship | 32,600 | 10 August 1921 | Decommissioned 14 February 1947, scrapped 1959 |
| Callaghan | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 27 November 1943 | sunk 28 July 1945 |
| Calpe | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 11 December 1941 | scrapped 1966 |
| Calypso | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,180 | 6 March 1917 | scrapped January 1948 |
| Cambrian | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 14 July 1944 | Paid off December 1968, scrapped 1971 |
| Camellia | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 18 June 1940 | |
| Cameron | Royal Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 24 September 1940 | constructive loss 5 December 1940 |
| Camp | United States Navy | Edsall | destroyer escort | 1,250 | 16 September 1943 | to South Vietnam 1971, to Philippines 1976 |
| Campania | Royal Navy | Nairana | escort carrier | 13,000 | 9 February 1944 | paid off 30 December 1945, scrapped 1955 |
| Campanula | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 6 September 1940 | |
| Campbeltown | Royal Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | expended as demolition-ship at St Nazaire, 29 March 1942 |
| Camperdown | Royal Navy | Battle | destroyer | 2,325 | 18 June 1945 | paid off 18 June 1945, scrapped 1970 |
| Campion | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 7 July 1941 | |
| Camrose | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 30 June 1941 | paid off 22 July 1945 |
| Canberra | Royal Australian Navy | County | heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 10 July 1928 | scuttled 9 August 1942 |
| Canberra | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 14 October 1943 | decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1980 |
| Candytuft | Royal Navy United States Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 16 October 1940 | to USA as Tenacity 4 March 1942, to UK 26 August 1945 |
| Canfield | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 22 July 1943 | scrapped 1947 |
| Cannon | United States Navy Brazilian Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 26 September 1943 | to Brazil 19 December 1944 as Baependi |
| Cap de la Madeleine | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 30 September 1944 | paid off 15 May 1965 |
| Cape Breton | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 25 October 1943 | paid off 26 January 1946 |
| Cape Esperance | United States Navy | Casablanca | escort carrier | 10,400 | 9 April 1944 | scrapped 1959 |
| Cape Gloucester | United States Navy | Commencement Bay | escort carrier | 10,900 | 5 March 1945 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1971 |
| Caperton | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 30 June 1943 | decommissioned 1960, sunk as target |
| Capetown | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,200 | 10 April 1922 | Scrapped June 1946 |
| Capilano | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 25 August 1944 | paid off 24 November 1945 |
| Capitan O'Brien | Chilean Navy | Capitan O'Brien | submarine | 2,020 | 1929 | 1957 |
| Capitan Thompson | Chilean Navy | Capitan O'Brien | submarine | 2,020 | 1929 | 1958 |
| Capps | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 23 June 1943 | To Spain 1957, scrapped 1985 |
| Caprice | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 5 April 1944 | paid off March 1973, scrapped 1979 |
| Captor | United States Navy | | Q-ship | 319 | 5 March 1942 | paid off 4 October 1944 |
| Caradoc | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,180 | 15 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 |
| Card | United States Navy | Bogue | escort carrier | 9,800 | 8 November 1942 | scrapped 1971 |
| Cardiff | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,290 | 25 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 |
| Carinthia | Royal Navy | | Armed Merchant Cruiser | 20,277 | August 1939 | torpedoed 6 June 1940, foundered the next day |
| Carlisle | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,200 | 11 November 1918 | constructive total loss 9 October 1942, scrapped 1948 |
| Carlplace | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 13 December 1944 | paid off 13 December 1945 |
| Carlson | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 10 May 1943 | scrapped 1946 |
| Carmick | United States Navy | Gleaves | destroyer escort | 1,630 | 28 December 1942 | decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1972 |
| Carnation | Royal Navy Royal Netherlands Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 22 February 1941 | transferred to Netherlands 24 March 1943, paid off 4 October 1944 |
| Carroll | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 24 October 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1966 |
| Carron | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 6 November 1944 | paid off March 1963, scrapped 1967 |
| Carter | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 3 May 1944 | to Republic of China 1948, scrapped 1973 |
| Carysfort | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 20 February 1945 | paid off February 1969, scrapped 1970 |
| Casablanca | United States Navy | Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 8 July 1943 | Decommissioned 10 June 1946, scrapped 1947 |
| Case | United States Navy | Mahan | destroyer | 1,450 | 15 September 1936 | scrapped 1948 |
| Cassandra | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 28 July 1944 | paid off January 1966, scrapped 1967 |
| Cassin | United States Navy | Mahan | destroyer | 1,450 | 21 August 1936 | destroyed 7 December 1941 but "rebuilt," scrapped 1948 |
| Cassin Young | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 31 December 1943 | decommissioned 1960, museum ship at Boston, MA |
| Castleton | Royal Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Catamarca | Argentine Navy | Catamarca | destroyer | 1,010 | ca.1912 | Sold 1959 |
| Cates | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 15 December 1943 | to France 1950, scrapped 1959 |
| Catterick | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 12 June 1942 | to Greece 1946, scrapped 1963 |
| Cattistock | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,000 | 22 July 1940 | paid off 26 March 1946, scrapped 1957 |
| Cauvery | Royal Indian Navy | Black Swan | sloop | 1,350 | 26 August 1943 | 1977 |
| Cavalier | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 22 November 1944 | Paid off July 1972; museum ship at Chatham |
| Cavalla | United States Navy | Gato | submarine | 1,525 surfaced | 29 February 1944 | decommissioned 1968; museum at Galveston, Texas |
| Cavendish | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 13 December 1944 | paid off 1964, scrapped 1967 |
| Cayuga | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | destroyer | 1,850 | 20 October 1947 | built and launched during the war, paid off 27 February 1964 |
| Cecil J. Doyle | United States Navy | Butler | destroyer escort | 1,350 | 16 October 1944 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1967 |
| Celandine | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 30 April 1941 | |
| Ceres | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,290 | 1 June 1917 | scrapped 1946 |
| Cervantes | Argentine Navy | Cervantes | destroyer | 1,522 | 3 September 1927 | Struck 24 June 1961 |
| Ceylon | Royal Navy | Fiji | light cruiser | 8,800 | 13 July 1943 | sold to Peru 1959, renamed Colonel Bolognesi |
| Chacabuco | Chilean Navy | Presidente Errazuriz | protected cruiser | 4,500 | 1902 | struck December 1959 |
| Chaffee | United States Navy | Rudderow | destroyer escort | 1,450 | 9 May 1944 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1948 |
| Chambers | United States Navy | Edsall | destroyer escort | 1,250 | 24 November 1943 | scrapped 1975 |
| Chambly | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 18 December 1940 | paid off 20 June 1945 |
| Champlin | United States Navy | Benson | destroyer | 1,620 | 12 September 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972 |
| Chandler | United States Navy | Clemson | minesweeper destroyer | 1,200 | 5 September 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Chao Ho | Republic of China Navy | Chao Ho | cruiser | 2,750 | 23 October 1911 | sunk 28 September 1937 |
| Chaplet | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 24 August 1945 | Laid up 1961. Sold for scrapping 1965. |
| Charger | United States Navy | Avenger | escort carrier | 8,200 | 3 March 1942 | paid off 15 March 1946, scrapped 1969 |
| Charles Ausburne | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 24 November 1942 | scrapped 1968 |
| Charles E. Brannon | United States Navy | Butler | destroyer escort | 1,350 | 1 November 1944 | decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1969 |
| Charles F. Hughes | United States Navy | Benson | destroyer | 1,620 | 5 September 1940 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1969 |
| Charles J. Badger | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 23 July 1943 | decommissioned 1957, scrapped 1974 |
| Charles J. Kimmel | United States Navy | Rudderow | destroyer escort | 1,450 | 20 April 1944 | decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1969 |
| Charles Lawrence | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 31 May 1943 | scrapped 1965 |
| Charles P. Cecil | United States Navy | Gearing | destroyer | 2,250 | 29 June 1945 | to Greece 1980, scrapped 2003 |
| Charles R. Greer | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 25 June 1943 | scrapped 1947 |
| Charles R. Ware | United States Navy | Gearing | destroyer | 2,250 | 21 July 1945 | decommissioned 1974, sunk as target 1981 |
| Charles S. Sperry | United States Navy | Sumner | destroyer | 2,200 | 17 May 1944 | to Chile 1974, scrapped 1990 |
| Charlestown | Royal Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 23 September 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Charlock | Royal Navy Royal Indian Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | March 1944 | to RIN post-war, paid off 1947 |
| Charlottetown (I) | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 13 December 1941 | sunk on 11 September 1942 by U-517 |
| Charlottetown (II) | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 28 April 1944 | paid off 25 March 1947 |
| Charrette | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 18 May 1943 | to Greece 1959, museum ship at Athens |
| Chase | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 18 July 1943 | scrapped 1946 |
| Chaser | Royal Navy | Avenger | escort carrier | 11,400 | 9 April 1943 | paid off 12 May 1946, sold into merchant service, scrapped 1972/3 |
| Chatelain | United States Navy | Edsall | destroyer escort | 1,250 | 22 September 1943 | scrapped 1974 |
| Chatsgrove | Royal Navy | P | Special Service ship | 610 | 1918 | broken up 1948 |
| Chauncey | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 31 May 1943 | decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1972 |
| Chebogue | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 22 February 1944 | paid off 25 September 1945 |
| Chelsea | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy Soviet Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | to Canada November 1942, to USSR July 1944 as Derzkiy |
| Chenango | United States Navy | Sangamon | escort carrier | 11,400 | 20 June 1941 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1960 |
| Chequers | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 28 September 1945 | scrapped 1966. |
| Chervona Ukraina | Soviet Navy | Svetlana | light cruiser | 7,600 | 3 October 1913 | Sunk 12 November 1941 |
| Chester | United States Navy | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 24 June 1930 | scrapped 1959 |
| Chester T. O’Brien | United States Navy | Butler | destroyer escort | 1,350 | 3 July 1944 | decommissioned 1959, scrapped 1974 |
| Chesterfield | Royal Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Chevalier (I) | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 20 June 1942 | sunk 7 October 1943 |
| Chevalier (II) | United States Navy | Gearing | destroyer | 2,250 | 9 January 1945 | to South Korea 1977 |
| Chevron | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 23 August 1945 | scrapped 1969 |
| Chew | United States Navy | Wickes | destroyer | 1,190 | 12 December 1918 | scrapped 1946 |
| Chicago (I) | United States Navy | Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 9 March 1931 | sunk 30 January 1943 |
| Chicago (II) | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 10 January 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1964, decommissioned 1980, scrapped 1992 |
| Chicoutimi | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 12 May 1941 | paid off 16 June 1945 |
| Chiddingfold | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | October 1941 | paid off April 1952, scrapped 1975 |
| Chieftain | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,710 | 7 March 1946 | Scrapped 1961 |
| Chikuma | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tone | heavy cruiser | 15,200 | 30 May 1939 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Chilliwack | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 8 April 1941 | paid off 14 July 1945 |
| Chitose | Imperial Japanese Navy | Chitose | light aircraft carrier | 11,190 | 25 July 1938 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Chiyoda | Imperial Japanese Navy | Chitose | light aircraft carrier | 11,190 | 15 December 1938 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Christopher | United States Navy Brazilian Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 23 October 1943 | to Brazil 19 December 1944 as Benevente |
| Chrysanthemum | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 1941 | sold 1947 |
| Churchill | Royal Navy Soviet Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | to USSR as Deyatelny 16 July 1944, sunk 16 January 1945 |
| Chōkai | Imperial Japanese Navy | Takao | heavy cruiser | 15,781 | 1932 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Chūyō | Imperial Japanese Navy | Taiyō | escort carrier | 18,116 | 25 November 1942 | sunk 4 December 1943 |
| Cincinnati | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 1 January 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
| Clare | Royal Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | scrapped 1945 |
| Clarence K. Bronson | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 11 June 1943 | to Turkey 1967, scrapped 1987 |
| Clarence L. Evans | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 25 June 1944 | to France 1952, scrapped 1960 |
| Clark | United States Navy | Porter | destroyer | 1,850 | 20 May 1936 | scrapped 1946 |
| Clarkia | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 22 April 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Claxton | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 8 December 1942 | To West Germany 1959 |
| Clematis | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 27 July 1940 | scrapped 1949 |
| Clemson | United States Navy | Clemson | destroyer | 1,250 | 29 December 1919 | Decommissioned 12 October 1945 |
| Cleveland | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,000 | 1940 | paid off 26 March 1946, scrapped 1959 |
| Cleveland | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 10,000 | 15 June 1942 | decommissioned 7 February 1947, scrapped 1960 |
| Clive | Royal Indian Navy | | sloop | 2,083 | 20 April 1920 | 1947 |
| Cloues | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 10 August 1943 | scrapped 1947 |
| Clover | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 13 May 1941 | |
| Clyde | Royal Navy | River | submarine | 2,206 | 1935 | paid off 30 July 1946 |
| Coates | United States Navy | Rudderow | destroyer escort | 1,450 | 24 January 1944 | decommissioned 1970, sunk as target 1971 |
| Coaticook | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 25 July 1944 | paid off 29 November 1945 |
| Cobalt | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 25 November 1940 | paid off 17 June 1945 |
| Cobourg | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 11 May 1944 | 15 June 1945 |
| Cochin | Royal Indian Navy | Basset | minesweeper | 529 | 1941–1944 | 1941–1944 |
| Cockade | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,885 | 29 September 1945 | Paid off 1958, scrapped 1964 |
| Cockrill | United States Navy | Edsall | destroyer escort | 1,250 | 24 December 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1974 |
| Codrington | Royal Navy | A | destroyer leader | 1,350 | 4 June 1930 | sunk 27 July 1940 |
| Cofer | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 18 January 1944 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1968 |
| Coffman | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 27 December 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973 |
| Coghlan | United States Navy | Benson | destroyer | 1,620 | 10 July 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1974 |
| Cogswell | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 17 August 1943 | to Turkey 1969, scrapped 1980 |
| Colahan | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 23 August 1943 | sunk as target 1966 |
| Colbert | French Navy | Suffren | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 4 March 1931 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
| Cole | United States Navy | Wickes | destroyer | 1,190 | 19 June 1919 | scrapped 1947 |
| Colhoun (I) | United States Navy | Wickes | destroyer | 1,060 | 13 June 1918 | sunk 30 August 1942 |
| Colhoun (II) | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 8 July 1944 | Sunk 6 April 1945 |
| Collett | United States Navy | Sumner | destroyer | 2,200 | 16 May 1944 | to Argentina 1974 |
| Collingwood | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 19 November 1940 | paid off 23 July 1945 |
| Colombo | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,200 | 18 June 1919 | scrapped 1948 |
| Colossus | Royal Navy | Colossus | aircraft carrier | 13,200 | 16 December 1944 | transferred to France, renamed Arromanches 6 August 1946 |
| Coltsfoot | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 1 November 1941 | |
| Columbia | Royal Canadian Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,060 | 24 September 1940 | paid off August 1945 |
| Columbia | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 29 July 1942 | scrapped 1959 |
| Columbine | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 9 November 1940 | |
| Columbus | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 8 June 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1962, scrapped 1977 |
| Combattante | Free French Naval Forces | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 30 December 1942 | sunk 23 February 1945 |
| Comet | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,885 | 6 June 1945 | Paid off 1958, scrapped 1962 |
| Commandant d'Estienne d'Orves | Free French Naval Forces | Flower | corvette | 925 | 23 May 1942 | 31 May 1947 |
| Commandant Detroyat | Free French Naval Forces | Flower | corvette | 925 | 16 September 1941 | 1947 |
| Commandant Drogou | Free French Naval Forces | Flower | corvette | 925 | 15 January 1942 | May 1947 |
| Commencement Bay | United States Navy | Commencement Bay | escort carrier | 11,373 | 27 November 1944 | Decommissioned 30 November 1946, scrapped 1971 |
| Compton | United States Navy | Sumner | destroyer | 2,200 | 4 November 1944 | to Brazil 1972, scrapped 1990 |
| Concord | United States Navy | Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 3 November 1923 | scrapped 1947 |
| Cone | United States Navy | Gearing | destroyer | 2,250 | 18 August 1945 | to Pakistan 1982, scrapped 1998 |
| Conklin | United States Navy | Butler | destroyer escort | 1,350 | 21 April 1944 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Conner (II) | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 8 June 1943 | to Greece 1959, scrapped 1997 |
| Connolly | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 8 July 1944 | scrapped 1947 |
| Conrad | Royal Navy Polish Navy | D | light cruiser | 4,850 | 4 October 1944 | returned to Royal Navy 28 September 1946, scrapped March 1948 |
| Conte di Cavour | Regia Marina | Conte di Cavour | dreadnought | 26,140 | 1915 | captured 10 September 1943 by Germany, scrapped 1946 |
| Contest | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,885 | 9 November 1945 | scrapped 1960 |
| Converse | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 20 November 1942 | to Spain 1959, scrapped 1988 |
| Convolvulus | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 26 February 1941 | |
| Conway | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 9 October 1942 | sunk as target 1970 |
| Cony | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 30 October 1942 | sunk as target 1970 |
| Conyngham | United States Navy | Mahan | destroyer | 1,450 | 4 November 1936 | scuttled 1948 after A-bomb test |
| Coolbaugh | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 15 October 1943 | decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1973 |
| Cooner | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 21 August 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973 |
| Cooper | United States Navy | Sumner | destroyer | 2,200 | 9 February 1944 | sunk 3 December 1944 |
| Copahee | United States Navy | Bogue | escort carrier | 9,800 | 15 June 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961 |
| Coral Sea | United States Navy | Casablanca | escort carrier | 9,600 | 27 August 1943 | renamed Anzio, decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959 |
| Core | United States Navy | Bogue | escort carrier | 9,800 | 10 December 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1971 |
| Coreopsis | Royal Navy Hellenic Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | August 1940 | to Greece as Kriezis 10 November 1943, out of service 1952 |
| Coriander | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 16 September 1941 | scrapped 1948 |
| Cornwallis | Royal Indian Navy | Cornwallis | Sloop | 1,290 | 1921 | Scrapped 1946 |
| Coronel | Kriegsmarine | | auxiliary cruiser | 12,700 | 13 August 1938 | ran aground 21 November 1984 |
| Corregidor | United States Navy | Casablanca | escort carrier | 10,400 | 31 August 1943 | scrapped 1959 |
| Corrientes | Argentine Navy | Buenos Aires | destroyer | 1,375 | | Lost 3 October 1941 |
| Corry | United States Navy | Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 18 December 1941 | sunk 6 June 1944 |
| Cossack (I) | Royal Navy | Tribal | destroyer | 2,020 | 7 June 1938 | sunk 24 October 1941 |
| Cossack (II) | Royal Navy | C | destroyer | 1,885 | 4 September 1945 | scrapped 1961 |
| Cotswold | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 16 November 1940 | paid off 1946, scrapped 1957 |
| Cotten | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 24 July 1943 | decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1975 |
| Cottesmore | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 29 December 1940 | paid off 28 February 1946, scrapped 1951 |
| Courageous | Royal Navy | Glorious | aircraft carrier | 22,500 | 4 November 1916 | sunk 17 September 1939 |
| Courbet | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Courbet | dreadnought | 23,200 | November 1913 | scuttled as a "Gooseberry" breakwater 6 June 1944 |
| Coventry | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,290 | 21 February 1918 | lost 14 September 1942 |
| Cowell | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 23 August 1943 | to Argentina 1971, scrapped 1982 |
| Cowie | United States Navy | Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 1 June 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972 |
| Cowpens | United States Navy | Independence | light aircraft carrier | 11,000 | 28 May 1943 | decommissioned 13 January 1947, scrapped 1960 |
| Cowslip | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 9 August 1941 | |
| Crane | United States Navy | Wickes | destroyer | 1,190 | 18 April 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Craven | United States Navy | Gridley | destroyer | 1,590 | 2 September 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Crescent | Royal Canadian Navy | C | destroyer | 1,900 | 21 August 1945 | delivered to Canada January 1945, scrapped 1971 |
| Croatan | United States Navy | Bogue | escort carrier | 9,800 | 28 April 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1971 |
| Crocus | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 20 October 1940 | |
| Cronin | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 5 May 1944 | sunk as target 1971 |
| Croome | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,000 | 29 June 1941 | paid off October 1945, scrapped 1957 |
| Crosby | United States Navy | Wickes | destroyer | 1,190 | 24 January 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Cross | United States Navy | Butler | destroyer escort | 1,350 | 8 January 1945 | decommissioned 1958, scrapped 1968 |
| Crouter | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 25 May 1943 | scrapped 1947 |
| Crowley | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 25 March 1944 | scrapped 1947 |
| Crusader | Royal Canadian Navy | C | destroyer | 1,900 | 26 November 1945 | delivered to Canada January 1945, scrapped 1971 |
| Cuba | Cuba | | Sloop | 2,055 | c.1911 | stricken 1971 |
| Cummings | United States Navy | Mahan | destroyer | 1,450 | 25 November 1936 | scrapped 1947 |
| Curacoa | Royal Navy | C-class light cruiser | | 4,290 | 18 February 1918 | lost 2 October 1942 |
| Curie | Royal Navy  Free French Naval Forces | U | submarine | 540 | 2 May 1943 | returned to Royal Navy July 1946, paid off May 1949 |
| Curlew | Royal Navy | C | light cruiser | 4,290 | 14 December 1917 | lost 26 May 1940 |
| Currier | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 1 February 1944 | sunk as target 1967 |
| Cushing (I) | United States Navy | Mahan | destroyer | 1,450 | 28 August 1936 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
| Cushing (II) | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 17 January 1944 | to Brazil 1961, scrapped 1982 |
| Cuttack | Royal Indian Navy | Basset | minesweeper | 529 | 1941–1944 | 1941–1944 |
| Cyclamen | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 30 September 1940 | |
| Cyprus | Royal Navy | | Special Service Ship | 4,398 | | paid off March 1941 |