- C class destroyer (1943)
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For other classes of the same name, see C class destroyer.
Cavalier, flying paying off pennant, June 1946Class overview Operators: Royal Navy
Royal Norwegian Navy
Royal Canadian Navy
Pakistan Navy
Preceded by: W and Z class Succeeded by: Weapon class Subclasses: Ca-, Ch-, Co-, Cr- In commission: 1944 - 1972 Planned: 8 Completed: 32 Lost: 1 Retired: 30 Preserved: 1 General characteristics Ca class Displacement: 1,710 tons (1,730 tonnes)
2,530 tons full (2,570 tonnes)Length: 362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a Beam: 35.75 ft (10.90 m) Draught: 10 ft (3.0 m) Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers,
Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines,
40,000 shp (29.8 MW), 2 shaftsSpeed: 36 kt / 32 kt full Range: 4,675 nmi at 20 kt
1,400 nmi at 32 ktComplement: 186 (222 as leader Sensors and
processing systems:- Radar Type 276 target indication
- Radar Type 291 air warning
- Radar Type 285 fire control on director Type K
- Radar Type 282 fire control on 40 mm mount Mk.IV
Armament: - 4 x QF 4.5-inch (113-mm) L/45 Mk IV guns on mounts CP Mk.V
- 2 x Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV, or;
- 4 x QF 2-pounder (40-mm) L/39 "pom-poms" Mk.VIII on quad mount Mk.VII (Caprice only)
- 4 x anti-aircraft mountings;
- Single Bofors 40 mm Mk.III
- Single QF 2 - pdr Mk.VIII Mk.XVI
- Single Oerlikon 20 mm P Mk.III
- Twin Oerlikon 20 mm Mk.V
- 10 (2x5) tubes for 21-inch (530 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX
- 4 throwers and 2 racks for 96 depth charges
General characteristics (Ch-, Co- & Cr- class) Displacement: 1,885 tons (1,915 tonnes)
2,545 tons full (2,585 tonnes)Draught: 11.75 ft (3.58 m) Sensors and
processing systems:Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mk.VI Armament: - 8 (2x4) tubes for 21 inch torpedoes Mk.IX
Notes: Other characteristics as per Ca- class The C class was a class of 32 destroyers of the Royal Navy that were launched from 1943 to 1945. The class was built in four flotillas of 8 vessels, the Ca, Ch, Co and Cr classes, ordered as the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Emergency Flotillas respectively. The class names are derived from the initial 2 letters of the member ships' names, although the Ca class were originally ordered with a heterogeneous mix of traditional destroyer names. A fifth flotilla, the Ce class, was planned but were cancelled in favour of the Weapon class destroyers.
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Design
They were built as part of the War Emergency Programme, based on the hull and machinery of the pre-war J class, incorporating whatever advances in armament and naval radar were available at the time. Some of the class were completed in time for wartime service. All ships used the Fuze Keeping Clock High Angle Fire Control Computer.[1]
The Ca flotilla were generally repeats of the preceding W and Z class, while the Ch, Co and Cr flotillas had quadruple instead of pentuple torpedo tubes to compensate for the added weight of remote power control (RPC) gunlaying equipment. They also introduced the all-welded hull into Royal Navy destroyer construction, beginning in Contest.Caprice was the last destroyer built for the Royal Navy to be fitted with the ubiquitous quadruple QF 2 pounder "pom-pom" mounting Mark VII. Comet and Contest were fitted as minelayers, and lacked 'Y' 4.5 inch gun.
The Ca flotilla were reconstructed in the 1960s to serve as fast fleet escorts.
Ships
* = flotilla leaders
- Ca flotilla
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank, launched 14 February 1944, sold for scrapping 1966
- Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock, launched 10 December 1943, sold for scrapping 1971
- Yarrow & Company, Scotstoun, launched 16 September 1943, sold for scrapping 1979
- J. Samuel White, Cowes, launched 25 July 1944, sold for scrapping 1970
- Cassandra (ex-Tourmaline), built by Yarrow, launched 29 November 1943, sold for scrapping 1967
- Cavalier (ex-Pellew), built by White, launched 7 April 1944, sold into preservation 1977, currently preserved at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent
- John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, launched 18 July 1944, sold for scrapping 1965
- Charity, built by Thornycroft, launched 30 November 1944, to Pakistan Navy as Shah Jehan 1959, sunk by Indian Navy warships off Karachi 1971-12-04
- Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse, launched 2 May 1944, sold for scrapping 1966
- William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, launched 27 February 1945. sold for scrapping 1963
- Vickers Armstrongs, Walker, launched 22 August 1944, sold for scrapping 1956
- Royal Canadian Navy 1945, sold for scrapping 1971
- Royal Norwegian Navy as edit] Image gallery
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HMS Cavalier, Britain's oldest and only remaining World War II destroyer, preserved as a museum ship at Chatham Historic Dockyard.
See also
References
- ^ Destroyer Weapons of WW2, Hodges/Friedman, ISBN 0851771378
- Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981, Maurice Cocker, Ian Allan, ISBN 0-7110-1075-7
- British and Empire Warships of the Second World War, H. T. Lenton, Greenhill Books, ISBN 1-85367-277-7
External links
C-class destroyer (1943)Royal Navy
Ca- classW and Z classes · Followed by: Weapon class
List of destroyers of the Royal NavyList of destroyers of the Royal Navy Categories:- Destroyer classes
- C class destroyers (1943)
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