HMS Castleton (I23)

HMS Ceylon (1943)

HMS Chequers was a C-class destroyer, of the "Ch" subclass, of the Royal Navy that was in service from December 1945, and which was scrapped in 1966.

HMS Cattistock (L35)

HMS Centipede

HMS Champion was one of nine Comus-class corvettes of the Royal Navy, built in the late 1870s and early 1880s to a design by Nathaniel Barnaby. Champion was one of three in the class built by J. Elder & Co., Govan, Scotland and was launched on 1 July 1878. She was the third vessel under this name in the Royal Navy.

HMS Centurion was the lead ship of her class of two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Intended for service abroad, they exchanged heavy armour and a powerful armament for high speed and long range to counter the foreign armoured cruisers then being built as commerce raiders and were rated as second-class battleships. Completed in 1894, Centurion was assigned to the China Station as its flagship. Together with her sister ship, Barfleur, she supported Allied operations during the Boxer Rebellion of 1899–1901 and contributed landing parties to participate in the Battles of the Taku Forts and of Tientsin. The ship returned home in 1901 to be rebuilt with a more powerful secondary armament. Centurion rejoined the China Station two years later and remained there until 1905 when she returned to Britain. Already made obsolete by the increasing speeds of the cruisers the ship was designed to defend against, she was placed in reserve until 1909. Centurion was decommissioned that year and sold for scrap in 1910.

HMS Chester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 18 February 1743. Chester was sold out of the navy in 1767.

HMS Cavendish (disambiguation)

HMS Cheerful (1897)

HMS Centaur

HMS Charlotte

Transferred to United Kingdom, 20 January 1944

HMS Charlestown (I21)

HMS Chanticleer

HMS Cavalier

HMS Challenger (1826)

HMS Chatham was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1752, and launched on 25 April 1758.

HMS Cherwell was a Palmer Type River-class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1902 – 1903 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Cherwell in south central England near Oxford, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.

HMS Castleton

HMS Chester (1691)

HMS Challenger (1813)

HMS Chester (1915)

HMS Chanticleer (1861)

HMS Charlotte was a mercantile schooner that Royal Navy hired or chartered in 1796 (or earlier), purchased in 1797 and commissioned in 1798. In her brief military career in the Caribbean she captured two small enemy privateers before she herself fell prey to a French privateer. The British recaptured her a little more than a year later but then broke her up in 1799 rather than recommissioning her.

HMS Catherine

HMS Cerbere

HMS Cavalier (D73)

HMS Carysfort was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1941, originally under the name HMS Pique. Her name was changed to conform with the initials "Ca" to her seven sister ships. She is named after John Proby, a politician who was also a Lord of the Admiralty in 1750. In 1752 he was created Baron Carysfort. His son, William Proby, Lord Proby, and his grandson, Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, were both naval officers, the latter eventually became an Admiral. She was the fifth Royal Navy warship to carry the name Carysfort. She was built and engined by J. Samuel White & Co. The keel was to be laid down on 4 May 1943 but was delayed until 12 May 1943 because of German bombing raids. She was launched on 25 July 1944 and completed on 20 February 1945. Her original

HMS Chelmer

HMS Chesterfield was a 44-gun fifth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, which saw active service in both the War of Jenkins' Ear and the Seven Years' War. Launched in 1745 during a period of war with France, Chesterfield was assigned to the fleet on patrol in the Western Approaches to the British Isles, and later to the protection of British interests in West Africa. Her crew mutinied in October 1748, but returned the vessel to Navy control in early 1749. Decommissioned in 1749, Chesterfield was restored to service when Britain declared war on France in 1755 for duty in the Mediterranean, North America and the Caribbean. After several years of convoy duty she was wrecked in the Old Bahama Channel, near Cuba, on 24 July 1762.

HMS Centurion was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 6 January 1732. At the time of Centurion's construction, the 1719 Establishment dictated the dimensions of almost every ship being built. Owing to concerns over the relative sizes of British ships compared to their continental rivals, Centurion was ordered to be built 1 ft (0.3 m) wider across the beam than the Establishment prescribed. HMS Rippon was similarly built to non-Establishment dimensions at the same time.

HMS Chelmsford

HMS Challenger was a steam-assisted Royal Navy corvette launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard. She was the flagship of the Australia Station between 1866 and 1870. As part of the North America and West Indies Station she took part in 1862 in operations against Mexico, including the occupation of Veracruz. Assigned as the flagship of Australia Station in 1866 and in 1868 undertook a punitive operation against some Fijian natives to avenge the murder of a missionary and some of his dependents. She left the Australian Station in late 1870. She was picked to undertake the first global marine research expedition: the Challenger expedition.The Challenger carried a complement of 243 officers, scientists and crew when she embarked on her 68,890-nautical-mile (127,580 km) journey. The United States Space Shuttle Challenger was named after the ship. Her figurehead is on display in the foyer of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

HMS Chester

HMS Cherokee (1808)

HMS Chelmsford was a Racecourse-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy built in 1916. The Racecourse class (also called the Ascot class) comprised 32 paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops. The ship was named after Chelmsford in Essex.

HMS Charybdis was a 21-gun Royal Navy corvette launched on 1 July 1859 at Chatham Dockyard. She served on the East Indies Station and the China Station between 1860 and 1861. She sailed to Vancouver in early 1862 joining the Pacific Station. She served at the Pacific Station until 1867, when she was assigned to the Australia Station arriving in March 1867. She left the Australia Station on November 1868 and returned to the Pacific Station in early 1869.

HMS Charles Galley was a 32–gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1676. She was rebuilt in 1693, and again at Deptford Dockyard in 1710. She was renamed HMS Torrington after a third rebuild in 1729, and was hulked in 1740. She was finally sold on 12 July 1744.

HMS Carysfort was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was one of six ships of the Caroline sub-class and was completed in 1915. Assigned to the Grand Fleet, the Harwich Force, and the Dover Patrol during the war, the ship served as a flagship for part of the war. Her only known combat was a short battle against German torpedo boats in the English Channel, although she was very active patrolling the North Sea and unsuccessfully searching for German ships. Carysfort was assigned to the Home and Atlantic Fleets after the war and was sent to the Mediterranean Fleet during the Chanak Crisis of 1922–23 to support British interests in Turkey. In 1922, she patrolled off the Irish coast during the Irish Civil War. The ship was placed in reserve after returning home in 1923 and, aside from ferrying troops overseas, remained in reserve until she was sold for scrap in 1931.

HMS Censeur (1782)

HMS Ceres (D59)

HMS Castor was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Castor was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 May 1832. She was one of a two ship class of frigates, built to an 1828 design by Sir Robert Seppings, and derived from the earlier . The had a further 13 inches (33 cm) of beam to mount the heavier ordnance. Castor cost a total of £38,292, to be fitted for sea. Her first captain was Lord John Hay, and by September 1832 Castor was at Lisbon.

HMS Centaur (1759)

HMS Ceylon

HMS Centurion (1650)

HMS Cayman (K506)

HMS Carysfort

HMS Chanticleer (1808)

HMS Charon

HMS Challenger (1902)

HMS Charles Galley

HMS Chevron

HMS Cheshire (F-18)

HMS Chaplet was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from August 1945, and which was scrapped in 1965.

HMS Chequers

HMS Ceylon (1808)

HMS Ceres was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the Ceres group of the C-class of cruisers.

Arrived atbreaker's yardfor scrapping on 28 April 1967

HMS Centurion (1774)

HMS Cherwell

HMS Castor (1915)

HMS Carysfort (1836)

HMS Censeur (1795)

HMS Chichester

HMS Centurion was the second of four King George V-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets. Aside from participating in the failed attempt to intercept the German ships that had bombarded Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby in late 1914, and the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, her service during the First World War generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. By the end of 1919, Centurion had been transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet. Although she spent much of her time in reserve, she had a peripheral role in the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. After her return home in 1924, the ship became the flagship of the Reserve Fleet. In 1926 Centurion was converted into a target ship and participated in trials evaluating the effectiveness of aerial bombing in addition to her normal duties. During the Second World War, the ship was rearmed with light weapons and was converted into a blockship in 1941. When that operation was cancelled, she was then modified into a decoy with dummy gun turrets in an attempt to fool the Axis powers. Centurion was sent to the Mediterranean in 1942 to escort a convoy to Malta, although the Italians quickly figured out the deception. The ship was deliberately sunk during the Invasion of Normandy in 1944 to form a breakwater.

Arrived for scrapping atHughes Bolckow, Blyth on 6 November 1965

HMS Charybdis

HMS Celebes was the Dutch or Batavian Republic frigate Pallas, under the command of Captain N.S. Aalbers, that the frigate and brig-sloop HMS Harrier captured on 26 July 1806 in the East Indies.(Main article: Action of 26 July 1806)
In the battle with the British vessels, casualties on Pallas were heavy, with eight men killed outright and 32 wounded, including Aalbers and three of his lieutenants. Six of the wounded later died, including Aalbers. British losses by contrast were light, with one man killed and eight wounded on Greyhound and just three wounded on Harrier. The British took her into service as HMS Makassar (or Macassa), but renamed her within the year to Celebes. Commander Edward Troubridge, formerly of Harrier, became her first British captain. Commander William Wilbraham succeeded him. In 1807 she came under the command of Captain William Pakenham. She was paid off at Calcutta on 23 September 1807. Following a survey, the decision was taken not to commission her into the Royal Navy. She was sold instead.

HMS Cayman

HMS Cheltenham was a Racecourse-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy built in 1916. The Racecourse class (also called the Ascot class) comprised 32 paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops. The ship was named after Cheltenham Racecourse. After decommissioning she was sold to John Cashmore Ltd for breaking up and arrived at their Newport Yard in 1927.

HMS Chichester (1753)

HMS Cawsand Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Cawsand Bay in Cornwall. The ship was originally ordered from the Blyth Shipbuilding Company of Blyth, Northumberland on 25 January 1943 as the Loch-class frigate Loch Rowan, and laid down on 24 April 1944. However the contract was then changed, and the ship was completed to a revised design as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate, launched on 26 February 1945, and completed on 13 November 1945.

HMS Charger was a Charger-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Poplar, London on 15 September 1894, served in home waters and was sold off in 1912.

HMS Charles

HMS Chester was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, one of two ships forming the Birkenhead subtype. Along with sister ship, Birkenhead, she was originally ordered for the Greek Navy in 1914 and was to be named Lambros Katsonis. The order was placed with Cammell Laird and production continued for the Greek account after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. In 1915 the two cruisers were purchased by the British government. She fought at the Battle of Jutland where casualties included John 'Jack' Cornwell who was awarded the highest honour, aged 16.

HMS Carysfort (1914)

HMS Celandine

HMS Ceres

HMS Chiddingfold (L31)

HMS Charybdis was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War and was sunk with heavy loss of life by German torpedo boats in an action in the English Channel in October 1943.

HMS Cavalier is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched on 7 April 1944, and commissioned on 22 November 1944. She served in World War II and in various commissions in the Far East until she was decommissioned in 1972. After decommissioning she was preserved as a museum ship and currently resides at Chatham Historic Dockyard.

HMS Chatham was a Royal Navy survey brig that accompanied HMS Discovery on George Vancouver's exploration of the west coast of North America in his 1791–1795 expedition. Chatham was built by King, of Dover and launched in early 1788. She was purchased for navy service on 12 February 1788.

HMS Chester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched 21 March 1691 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was captured by the French at the Battle at The Lizard on 21 October 1707.

HMS Chelmer (1904)

HMS Castor

HMS Chatham (1788)

HMS Centurion was a 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, and during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the war with America, Centurion saw action in a number of engagements and supported British forces in the Caribbean and the North American coasts. Spending the period of peace either serving as a flagship in the Caribbean or laid up or under refit in British dockyards, she was recommissioned in time to see action in the wars with France, particularly in the East Indies. Her most important action came in the Battle of Vizagapatam in 1804, in which she fought against the French squadron of Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois that consisted of a 74-gun ship, and two frigates. Despite sustaining severe damage, she continued fighting, and survived the assault by the considerably heavier forces. Returning to Britain shortly afterwards, she was refitted and transferred to Halifax, where she served as a hospital and receiving ship for the rest of her career. She sank at her moorings there in 1824, and was raised the following year and broken up, ending 50 years of Royal Navy service.

HMS Chepstow

HMS Challenger

HMS Cavendish was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered in February 1942 from John Brown of Clydebank. She was originally to be named Sibyl but this was changed to Cavendish before launch to fit her revised class name. She was launched on 12 April 1944.

HMS Cheerful was a 30-knot, three-funnel torpedo boat destroyer built by Hawthorn Leslie. She was ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896–1897 Naval Estimates, launched in 1898 and saw action during World War I. She was mined off the Shetland Islands in 1917 and sank with the loss of 44 officers and men.

Sold 26 April 1935 toCashmore, Newport, Wales

Scrapped atInverkeithingin December 1969

HMS Castor was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Castor was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 May 1832. She was one of a two ship class of frigates, built to an 1828 design by Sir Robert Seppings, and derived from the earlier . The had a further 13 inches (33 cm) of beam to mount the heavier ordnance. Castor cost a total of £38,292, to be fitted for sea. Her first captain was Lord John Hay, and by September 1832 Castor was at Lisbon. On 27 August 1834 she collided with the Revenue Cutter Cameleon off South Foreland, Dover, sinking Cameleon with the loss of most of its crew. This incident led to the Court Martial of officers and crew of Castor on 6 September 1834 in Plymouth. The officers were acquitted but the lieutenant of the watch was dismissed from the service, it having been admitted and proven that a proper watch had not been kept. She took part in the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841), also known as the Second Syrian War, when the British Mediterranean Fleet under Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, supported the Ottoman Empire and took action to compel the Egyptians to withdraw from Beirut. During the Oriental Crisis of 1840 Castor was involved in the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre on 3 November 1840. After cruising on the coast of Ireland she was sent out to the East Indies Station; before being decommissioned at Chatham in 1842. In 1845 Castor was on the China Station under the command of Captain Graham. Officers, seaman and Royal Marines of Castor participated in the siege of Ruapekapeka Pā from 27 December 1845 to 11 January 1846 during the Flagstaff War in New Zealand. Seven sailors were killed in the battle to take the fortified stronghold that was built by the Māori. In 1852 Castor was on the Cape of Good Hope Station under the command of Commodore Wyvill. She came to the assistance of HM Troopship Birkenhead, when the Birkenhead was wrecked on 26 February 1852. She was used as a training ship from January 1860, and was a Royal Naval Reserve training ship at North Shields from April 1862, having been reduced to 22 guns. She was sold at Sheerness on 25 August 1902 for breaking up at Castle & Sons breakers yard in Woolwich.

HMS Chequers (R61)

HMS Chelsham (M2616)

HMS Carstairs was a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She was originally to be named Cawsand, but this was changed to avoid any conflict between the vessel name and a coastal location. On 4 January 1924 she was renamed HMS Dryad, but reverted to Carstairs on 15 August 1924.

HMS Chelsham

HMS Chediston (M1121)

HMS Charger (1894)

HMS Chaplet

HMS Champion

HMS Chatham

HMS Charybdis was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Mark Richards and John Davidson at Hythe, and launched in 1809. She captured two American prizes during the War of 1812 before she was laid up in 1815 and sold in 1819.

HMS Caterham was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She operated as a tender at the Navigation School. She was decommissioned before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold in 1935 to Cashmore, of Newport, Monmouthshire to be broken up.

HMS Chelsea

HMS Charybdis was a 21-gun Royal Navy corvette launched on 1 July 1859 at Chatham Dockyard. She served on the East Indies Station and the China Station between 1860 and 1861. She sailed to Vancouver in early 1862 joining the Pacific Station. She served at the Pacific Station until 1867, when she was assigned to the Australia Station arriving in March 1867. She left the Australia Station on November 1868 and returned to the Pacific Station in early 1869. As part of the Royal Navy's , she visited a number of ports in South America, Australia and Japan before returning to Vancouver. In 1870 she sailed to Plymouth for refit. In 1873 she was assigned to the China Station and conducted anti-piracy patrols in the Straits of Malacca. During the Southern Malayan state disputes in 1874, she in conjunction with kept the peace. In October 1880, she was lent to the Canadian government as a training ship, until returned by Canada in 1882. She was sold at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1884 for breaking up.

Scrapped byThos W Ward, Inverkeithing from 22 October 1962

HMS Chepstow was a Racecourse-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy built in 1916. The Racecourse Class (also called the Ascot Class) comprised 32 paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops. The vessel was named for Chepstow Racecourse. The ship's bell is in St. Mary's Church, Chepstow.

HMS Charity

USS Harland (PG-186)

HMS Chanticleer was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy. Chanticleer was launched on 26 July 1808. She served in European waters (mainly the North Sea) during the Napoleonic Wars and was paid off and laid up at Sheerness in July 1816. She was chosen for an 1828 scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Her poor condition on her return meant that the Admiralty replaced her for the second voyage in 1831 with another Cherokee-class brig, Beagle, which subsequently became famous because of the association with Charles Darwin. Chanticleer then spent 15 years as a customs watch ship at Burnham-on-Crouch and was broken up in 1871.

HMS Charwell

Captured by French privateer on 16 October 1798

HMS Cheerly (W 153) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II.

HMS Cavendish

HMS Cassandra (1806)

HMS Ceres is a Royal Naval Reserve unit located in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

HMS Chevron (R51)

HMS Castor (1785)

HMS Centurion was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1691 at Deptford Dockyard. She served until 1728, when she was broken up.

HMS Chichester was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the standard draught for 70-gun ships as specified in the 1745 Establishment amended in 1750, and launched on 4 June 1753. Chichester and Intrepid captured the advice-brig Serin off San Domingo on 31 July 1794. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Serin Because Chichester served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants. Chichester served until 1803, when she was broken up.

HMS Charger

HMS Caton (1782)

HMS Ceylon (30)

HMS Cheltenham

HMS Cayman (K506) was a Colony-class frigate of the United Kingdom that served during World War II. She originally was ordered by the United States Navy as the Tacoma-class patrol frigate USS Harland (PF-78) and was transferred to the Royal Navy prior to completion.

HMS Chamois

HMS Centurion (1732)

HMS Challenger (1931)

HMS Charles Galley (1676)

HMS Champion was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War I. She was part of the Calliope group of the C class.

HMS Charger (D27)

HMS Centurion was a 40-gun fourth rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by at Ratcliffe, and launched in 1650. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns. Centurion was wrecked in 1689.

HMS Celia (T134)

HMS Cesar

HMS Cherub

HMS Chichester (1706)

HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men. She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth. She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861. Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher served in her in 1860.

HMS Cassandra

HMS Centinel

HMS Cerberus

HMS Castle Harbour was a civilian harbour vessel of 730 tons that was taken-up from trade (TUFT) during the Second World War by the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda for use by the and later armed and commissioned as a warship, providing harbour defence from submarines.

HMS Champion (1915)

HMS Chichester was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard on 6 March 1695. She underwent a rebuild in 1706 at Woolwich Dockyard. Chichester served until 1749, when she was broken up. Tobias Smollett, later to become a well-known writer, served as a naval surgeon on the Chichester.

HMS Cassandra was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806. She was commissioned in October 1806 under the command of Lieutenant George Le Blanc. She was ordered to carry dispatches to the squadron blockading Bordeaux. When she met up with Naiad on 13 August 1807, Le Blanc left Cassandra to take the dispatches to Naiad. Two sudden squalls rolled Cassandra over on her beam ends, capsizing her and causing her to sink stern first. Eleven men, and one woman and her child drowned.

HMS Chatham (1758)

HMS Challenger was a second-class protected cruiser of the Challenger-class of the Royal Navy.

HMS Cassandra was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered in February 1942 from Yarrow Shipbuilders. She was originally to be named HMS Tourmaline but this was changed to Cassandra in November 1942 to fit her revised class name. She was laid down on 30 January 1943 and launched on 29 November 1943.

HMS Cerberus (1868)

HMS Chesapeake (1855)

HMS Charybdis (1893)

HMS Charles (1632)

HMS Charybdis (F75) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was built by the Harland & Wolff company of Belfast, and was the last ship to be built there for British naval forces until RFA Fort Victoria of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, was launched in 1990. Charybdis was launched on 28 February 1968 and commissioned on 2 June 1969. Her nickname was the "Cherry B".

HMS Cheerly (W 153)

HMS Cassandra (1916)

HMS Chesterfield

HMS Chatham (1911)

HMS Charlotte (1798)

HMS Carstairs

HMS Centaur (1916)

HMS Cawsand Bay

HMS Cheshire

Vengeur

HMS Castor was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The French briefly captured her during the Atlantic Campaign of May 1794 but she spent just 20 days in French hands as a British ship retook her before her prize crew could reach a French port. Castor eventually saw service in many of the theatres of the wars, spending time in the waters off the British Isles, in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, as well as the Caribbean.

HMS Charger (BAVG-4)

Sunk inBattle of Sept-Îleson 23 October 1943

HMS Chaser

HMS Cheam was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I.

HMS Centurion

HMS Chatham was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was the name ship of her sub-class of the Town class. The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1928.

HMS Charybdis (1859)

Centaure was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched at Toulon in 1757. She was designed by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb and named on 25 October 1755, and built under his supervision at Toulon. In French service she carried 74 cannon, comprising: 28 x 36-pounders on the lower deck, 30 x 18-pounders on the upper deck, 10 x 8-pounders on the quarterdeck, 6 x 8-pounders on the forecastle. The Royal Navy captured Centaure at the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759, and commissioned her as the third-rate HMS Centaur.

HMS Charles was a 96-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Christopher Pett at Deptford Dockyard until his death in March 1668, then completed by Jonas Shish after being launched in the same month. Her name was formally Charles the Second, but she was known simply as Charles, particularly after 1673 when the contemporary Royal Charles was launched. The St George was taken to pieces at Portsmouth in 1726 to be rebuilt again. On 4 September 1733, St George was ordered to be rebuilt to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 3 April 1740.

HMS Chelsea (I35)

Sold as a merchant ship; scrapped between 1972 and 1973

HMS Chelmer was a Thornycroft type River Class Destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Chelmer in eastern England, north east of London, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.

HMS Chester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions, and launched on 18 October 1708. Chester was placed on harbour service in 1743 and was broken up in 1749.

HMS Cheviot was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from December 1945, and scrapped in 1962. She was the only Royal Navy warship to bear this name.
HMS Cheviot (R90)

HMS Ceylon was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was of the Ceylon sub class, named after the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The cruiser saw service in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres during the Second World War. In the postwar era, she participated in actions in Egypt and the Korean War. In 1960 she transferred to the navy of Peru and renamed Coronel Bolognesi. The cruiser was scrapped in 1985.

HMS Cherwell (1903)

HMS Chichester (1695)

HMS Chamois was a Palmer three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895–1896 Naval Estimates. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy to carry this name. She was commissioned in 1897 and served in both the Channel and the Mediterranean. She foundered in 1904 after her own propeller pierced her hull.

HMS Ceanothus

HMS Ceanothos (K486)

HMS Charity was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by John I. Thornycroft and Company of Woolston, Southampton on 9 July 1943. She was launched on 30 November 1944 and commissioned on 19 November 1945. She was sold to the US Navy in 1958, for transfer to the Pakistan Navy as a part of the Military Aid Program. Renamed Shah Jahan, the ship was badly damaged in a strike by Indian Navy missile boats during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, and scrapped as a result.

HMS Chelsham was one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Chelsham in Surrey.

Pallas

HMS Challenger was a survey ship of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1930 at Chatham Dockyard and built in a dry dock. Afterwards she was moved to Portsmouth for completion and commissioned on 15 March 1932.

HMS Charger (CVE-30)

HMS Cavendish (1918)

HMS Caterham (1919)

HMS Cattistock (L35) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the first subgroup of the Hunt class and served throughout World War II before being scrapped in 1957.

HMS Charlestown (I-21)

HMS Challenger was a 28-gun sixth rate of the Royal Navy launched at Portsmouth, England on 14 November 1826.

BAP Coronel Bolognesi

HMS Chaplet (R52)

HMS Centaur (G64)

HMS Challenger (K08)

HMS Charybdis (F75)

Arrived atbreaker's yardfor scrapping atBlython 14 August 1967

HMS Chatham was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 October 1691 at Chatham Dockyard. In 1705 she captured the French 60-gun Auguste, built in Brest in 1704, which the British took into service as HMS Auguste. She underwent a rebuild according to the 1719 Establishment at Deptford in 1721. Chatham was one of the British ships-of-the-line at the Battle of Toulon (1744).

HMS Chatham (1721)

HMS Chiddingfold (L31) was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was leased to the Indian Navy in 1952 where she served as INS Ganga (D94).

HMS Centurion was the lead ship of her class of two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Intended for service abroad, they exchanged heavy armour and a powerful armament for high speed and long range to counter the foreign armoured cruisers then being built as commerce raiders and were rated as second-class battleships.

USS Breton (CVE-10) (originally AVG-10 then later ACV-10) was a Bogue-class escort carrier that served during World War II as the British Attacker-class escort carrier HMS Chaser (D32). She was laid down on 28 June 1941 under Maritime Commission contract at Pascagoula, Mississippi by Ingalls Shipbuilding. The ship was commissioned by the United States Navy on 9 April 1943 and simultaneously transferred via the Lend-Lease program to the United Kingdom. That same day, the ship was renamed HMS Chaser and commissioned by the Royal Navy. Chaser was assigned to convoy escort on Arctic routes, assisting in the sinking of U-472 on 4 March 1944 and U-366 and U-973 in the next two days.

HMS Cerbere (1800)

HMS Celebes was the Dutch or Batavian Republic frigate Pallas, under the command of Captain N.S. Aalbers, that the frigate and brig-sloop HMS Harrier captured on 26 July 1806 in the East Indies.(Main article: Action of 26 July 1806)
In the battle with the British vessels, casualties on Pallas were heavy, with eight men killed outright and 32 wounded, including Aalbers and three of his lieutenants. Six of the wounded later died, including Aalbers. British losses by contrast were light, with one man killed and eight wounded on Greyhound and just three wounded on Harrier.

HMS Cheshire (F18), was a ship of the Royal Navy, named after the English county of Cheshire. Previously a cruise ship, she served as an armed merchant cruiser acting as convoy escort and troopship in World War II. Cheshire proved doughty in her military role: She was torpedoed twice by U-boats but survived each and returned to service after extensive repairs. Cheshire was used as a repatriation ship at war's end in 1945, and was returned to her owner in 1948. She was broken up at Newport in July 1957.

HMS Chesterfield (1745)

USS Breton (CVE-10) (originally AVG-10 then later ACV-10) was a Bogue-class escort carrier that served during World War II as the British Attacker-class escort carrier HMS Chaser (D32). She was laid down on 28 June 1941 under Maritime Commission contract at Pascagoula, Mississippi by Ingalls Shipbuilding. The ship was commissioned by the United States Navy on 9 April 1943 and simultaneously transferred via the Lend-Lease program to the United Kingdom. That same day, the ship was renamed HMS Chaser and commissioned by the Royal Navy. Chaser was assigned to convoy escort on Arctic routes, assisting in the sinking of U-472 on 4 March 1944 and U-366 and U-973 in the next two days. From March to August 1945 was part of the British Pacific Fleet attached to the 30th Aircraft Carrier Squadron. The carrier was returned to United States' custody 12 May 1946 and sold into merchant service 20 December 1946 as Aagtekerk. The ship was renamed E Yung in 1967. The ship had a serious fire in #2 hold on 3 December 1972 and was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan soon thereafter.

HMS Challenger (1858)

HMS Cerbere was the French naval brig Cerbère, ex-Chalier, which the British captured in 1800. She was wrecked in 1804.

HMS Castor was one of the Cambrian subclass of the C class of light cruisers. She saw service during the First World War and the Russian Civil War.

HMS Censeur

HMS Carysfort was a sixth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1836 and named for the Earl of Carysfort, who had been a former (civilian) Lord of the Admiralty. Her captain, Lord George Paulet, occupied the Hawaiian Islands for five months in 1843. She was decommissioned in 1847 and finally broken up in 1861.

HMS Ceylon (C30)

HMS Chevron was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from August 1945 to the 1960s. She was scrapped in 1969.

HMS Cherokee was the lead ship of her class of 10-gun brig-sloops of the British Royal Navy, which saw service during the Napoleonic Wars.

HMS Cawsand Bay (K644)

HMS Carstairs (1919)

HMS Caterham

HMS Castle Harbour

HMS Castor (1832)

HMS Centaur was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. She was the name ship of the Centaur group of the C-class of cruisers.

HMS Chatham (1691)

HMS Chesterfield (I28)

HMS Chaser (D32)

HMS Chester (1743)

HMS Centurion was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1844 at Pembroke Dockyard. In 1855 she was fitted with screw propulsion. Centurion was sold out of the navy in 1870.

Lambros Katsonis

Returned to US Navy, 19 February 1946 and sold for merchant service 1948

HMS Carysfort was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1941, originally under the name HMS Pique. Her name was changed to conform with the initials "Ca" to her seven sister ships. She is named after John Proby, a politician who was also a Lord of the Admiralty in 1750. In 1752 he was created Baron Carysfort. His son, William Proby, Lord Proby, and his grandson, Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, were both naval officers, the latter eventually became an Admiral. She was the fifth Royal Navy warship to carry the name Carysfort. She was built and engined by J. Samuel White & Co. The keel was to be laid down on 4 May 1943 but was delayed until 12 May 1943 because of German bombing raids. She was launched on 25 July 1944 and completed on 20 February 1945. Her original pennant number was R25 changing to D25 after the Second World War.

HMS Cherokee

30 June 1920 sold toThos W Wardof Sheffield for breaking at Hayle, North Cornwall

HMS Challenger was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched at Redbridge, Southampton, in 1813. She participated in the capture of a French privateer and then sailed to the East Indies. She was laid up in 1819 and sold in 1824.

HMS Cassandra (R62)

INS Ganga

HMS Charybdis (1809)

HMS Chamois (1896)

HMS Cassandra was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was part of the Caledon group of the C-class of cruisers. Cassandra had a short career, being commissioned in June 1917 and sunk by a mine during the British intervention in the Russian Civil War on 5 December 1918. She was built by Vickers Limited, Barrow in Furness and laid down in March 1916, launched on 25 November 1916 and commissioned into the Navy in June 1917.

Furiosior undis: 'More mad than the waves'

HMS Chichester was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the standard draught for 70-gun ships as specified in the 1745 Establishment amended in 1750, and launched on 4 June 1753. Chichester and Intrepid captured the advice-brig Serin off San Domingo on 31 July 1794. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Serin Chichester served until 1803, when she was broken up.

HMS Centurion (1892)

HMS Centurion (1691)

HMS Centurion (1844)

HMS Chesapeake

HMS Cheam

HMS Chiddingfold

HMS Chediston

Sold for scrap to BISCO on 23 October 1970 and broken up byJ Cashmore. She arrived in tow at the breakers yard in Newport on 15 November 1970.

HMS Cheviot

HMS Charlestown

HMS Chaudiere

Sunk on 5 December 1918 by mine near Saaremaa (Oesel) isle

HMS Challenger (J98)

HMS Chesterfield was a 44-gun fifth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, which saw active service in both the War of Jenkins' Ear and the Seven Years' War. Launched in 1745 during a period of war with France, Chesterfield was assigned to the fleet on patrol in the Western Approaches to the British Isles, and later to the protection of British interests in West Africa. Her crew mutinied in October 1748, but returned the vessel to Navy control in early 1749.

Sold 18 March 1922 to the Coaster Construction Co.

Sold and broken up in June 1871 at Sheerness

HMS Centurion was a 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, and during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the war with America, Centurion saw action in a number of engagements and supported British forces in the Caribbean and the North American coasts. Spending the period of peace either serving as a flagship in the Caribbean or laid up or under refit in British dockyards, she was recommissioned in time to see action in the wars with France, particularly in the East Indies.

HMS Carysfort was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was one of six ships of the Caroline sub-class and was completed in 1915. Assigned to the Grand Fleet, the Harwich Force, and the Dover Patrol during the war, the ship served as a flagship for part of the war. Her only known combat was a short battle against German torpedo boats in the English Channel, although she was very active patrolling the North Sea and unsuccessfully searching for German ships. Carysfort was assigned to the Home and Atlantic Fleets after the war and was sent to the Mediterranean Fleet during the Chanak Crisis of 1922–23 to support British interests in Turkey. In 1922, she patrolled off the Irish coast during the Irish Civil War. The ship was placed in reserve after returning h

HMS Charles was a 96-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Christopher Pett at Deptford Dockyard until his death in March 1668, then completed by Jonas Shish after being launched in the same month. Her name was formally Charles the Second, but she was known simply as Charles, particularly after 1673 when the contemporary Royal Charles was launched. The Charles was renamed HMS St George in 1687 and reclassified as a second rate in 1691. In 1699-1701 she was rebuilt at Portsmouth Dockyard as a 90-gun second rate. In 1707, she belonged to Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet. Under the command of Captain James Lord Dursley, she saw action during the unsuccessful Battle of Toulon and was present during the great naval disaster off the Isles of Scilly when Shovell and four of his ships (Association, Firebrand, Romney and Eagle) were lost, claiming the lives of nearly 2,000 sailors. St George also struck rocks off Scilly, but got off. The St George was taken to pieces at Portsmouth in 1726 to be rebuilt again. On 4 September 1733, St George was ordered to be rebuilt to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 3 April 1740. She was eventually broken up in September 1774.

Castle Harbour

HMS Centaure (1757)

HMS Celebes (1806)

Chalier

HMS Cheerly (W153)

PNS Shah Jahan

HMS Cavendish (R15)

HMS Cheerful

HMS Charybdis (88)

HMS Cattistock

HMS Chesterfield (1913)

HMS Chatham (1812)

HMS Champion (1878)

HMS Charity (R29)

HMS Cheshire (F18), was a ship of the Royal Navy, named after the English county of Cheshire. Previously a cruise ship, she served as an armed merchant cruiser acting as convoy escort and troopship in World War II. Cheshire proved doughty in her military role: She was torpedoed twice by U-boats but survived each and returned to service after extensive repairs. She also survived a U-boat attack on a small convoy of troopships transiting the English Channel from Southampton, England to Cherbourg, France, containing just herself and SS Leopoldville, with over 800 lives lost when Leopoldville went down. During Cheshire's very next run, transporting the U.S. 289th Engineer Combat Battalion from Southampton to Le Havre between 28 and 31 December 1944, another troop transport in convoy on the same route, SS Empire Javelin, was lost to a possible mine on 28 December. Cheshire was used as a repatriation ship at war's end in 1945, and was returned to her owner in 1948. She was broken up at Newport in July 1957.

HMS Chameleon

Manus haec inimica tyrannis : ‘This hand is deadly to tyrants’

HMS Centurion (1911)

23 June 1919 sold toThos W Wardof Sheffield for breaking at Rainham, Kent on the Thames Estuary

HMS Chester (1708)

HMS Carysfort (R25)

HMS Chatham was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had been planned as the Royal-Hollandais for the French Navy, but was captured while under construction during the Walcheren Campaign.

Sold toUS Navyfor later sale to thePakistan Navy

HMS Charles (1668)

HMS Challenger was a steam-assisted Royal Navy corvette launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard. She was the flagship of the Australia Station between 1866 and 1870. As part of the North America and West Indies Station she took part in 1862 in operations against Mexico, including the occupation of Veracruz. Assigned as the flagship of Australia Station in 1866 and in 1868 undertook a punitive operation against some Fijian natives to avenge the murder of a missionary and some of his dependents. She left the Australian Station in late 1870.

HMS Cheam (1919)

HMS Cavalier (R73)

HMS Centurion was the second of four King George V-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets. Aside from participating in the failed attempt to intercept the German ships that had bombarded Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby in late 1914, and the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, her service during the First World War generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea.

HMS Chatham was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had been planned as the Royal-Hollandais for the French Navy, but was captured while under construction during the Walcheren Campaign. Royal-Hollandais had been planned as one of the smaller variants of the Téméraire-class ships of the line, and was under construction at Flushing when the town fell in 1809 to a British expeditionary force. The frames were discovered on the slipway, and were packaged up and shipped back to London, where the Admiralty authorised her completion for the Royal Navy. She was duly launched in 1812, and spent a relatively short career in British waters, particularly the North Sea, including some time as a flagship. Poor quality timber used in her construction curtailed her career, and she was reduced to a hulk towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, was laid up, and finally sold in 1817, five years after having been launched.

USS Breton

HMS Celia

Centaure

HMS Makassar or Macassa, renamed to Celebes

HMS Ceres (shore establishment 2015)

Recaptured by the Royal Navy on 24 November 1799 and broken up