The C-class was a group of twenty-nine light cruisers of the Royal Navy, and were built in a sequence of seven groups known as the Caroline-class (six ships), the Calliope-class (two ships), the Cambrian-class (four ships), the Centaur-class (two ships), the Caledon-class (four ships), the Ceres-class (five ships) and the Carlisle-class (six ships). They were built for the rough conditions of the North Sea, and proved to be rugged and capable vessels, despite their being somewhat small and cramped.
Unit Run[]
Caroline-subclass[]
- HMS Caroline - turned into a museum ship
- HMS Carysfort - sold for scrapping in August 1931
- HMS Cleopatra - sold for scrapping in June 1931
- HMS Comus - sold for scrapping on July 28th, 1934
- HMS Conquest - sold for scrapping on August 30th, 1930
- HMS Cordelia - sold for scrapping on July 31st, 1923
Calliope-subclass[]
- HMS Calliope - sold for scrapping on August 28th, 1931
- HMS Champion - sold for scrapping on July 28th, 1934
Cambrian-subclass[]
- HMS Cambrian - sold for scrapping on July 28th, 1934
- HMS Canterbury - sold for scrapping on July 28th, 1934
- HMS Castor - sold for scrapping on July 30th, 1936
- HMS Constance - sold for scrapping on June 8th, 1936
Centaur-subclass[]
- HMS Centaur - sold for scrapping in February 1934
- HMS Concord - sold for scrapping in August 1935
Caledon-subclass[]
- HMS Caledon - converted to AA ship in December 1943, sold for scrapping on January 22nd, 1946
- HMS Calypso - sunk by the Italian submarine Bagnolini south of Crete on June 12th, 1940
- HMS Cassandra - sunk by a mine in the Baltic on December 5th, 1918
- HMS Caradoc - converted to a base ship in April 1944, sold for scrapping in May 1946
Ceres-subclass[]
- HMS Ceres - sold for scrapping on January 23rd, 1946
- HMS Cardiff - sold for scrapping on April 5th, 1946
- HMS Coventry - converted to AA ship in 1937; sold for scrapping on May 19th, 1946
- HMS Curacoa - converted to AA ship in 1939; sunk in a collision with RMS Queen Mary north of Ireland on October 2nd, 1942
- HMS Curlew - converted to AA ship in 1938; sunk by aircraft in Ofot Fjord, Norway, on May 26th, 1940
Carlisle-subclass[]
- HMS Carlisle - converted to AA ship in 1939; converted to base ship in 1944, sold for scrapping in 1948
- HMS Cairo - converted to AA ship in 1939; sold for scrapping in February 1947
- HMS Calcutta - converted to AA ship in 1939; sunk by air attack on June 1st, 1941
- HMS Capetown - sold for scrapping on April 5th, 1946
- HMS Colombo - converted to AA ship in 1943, sold for scrapping on January 22nd, 1948
- HMS Cawnpore - sold for scrapping on May 19th, 1946