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HMCS Ville de Quebec (K 242)

Corvette of the Flower class


HMCS Ville de Quebec during the war.

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 242 
Built byMorton Engineering and Dry Dock Co. (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Jun, 1941 
Launched12 Nov, 1941 
Commissioned24 May, 1942 
End service6 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 6 July 1945.
Sold into mercantile service in 1946 and renamed Dispina, renamed Dorothea Paxos in 1947, Tanya in 1948 and Medex in 1949. She was listed on Lloyd's Register until 1952. 

Noteable events involving Ville de Quebec include:

28 Oct, 1942
HMCS Alberni (Lt. I.H. Bell, RCNVR) and HMCS Ville de Quebec (Lt.Cdr. A.R.E. Coleman, RCNR) together pick up 81 survivors from the British whale factory ship Sourabaya that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day in the North Atlantic in position 54º32'N, 31º02'W by the German submarine U-436

13 Jan, 1943
The German submarine U-224 was sunk in the western Mediterranean west of Algiers, in position 36º28'N, 00º49'E, by ramming and depth charges from the Canadian corvette HMCS Ville de Quebec (Lt.Cdr. A.R.E. Coleman, RCNR). (see map)


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