The Cclass 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 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.
Organized as a squadron in March 1943, there quickly developed an esprit de corps among officers and crews, knowing that they had been and were going to be the lead ships in surface engagements with the best of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
In October 1943, the squadron was ordered north to the central Pacific to join the fast carrier task forces in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaigns.
With the USS John C. Stennis Battle Group—now the USS John C. Stennis Strike Group—beginning in 2000, the squadron interdicted and diverted violators of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.
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