HMCS Ville de Québec (1st of the name) (K242)/Flower-class corvette

HMCS Quebec City K242

Commissioned in Quebec City (Quebec) on May 24, 1942, the corvette HMCS Ville de Québec arrived in Halifax (Nova Scotia) on June 12. Later in July, the ship was assigned to the Western Local Escort Force where she assumed almost exclusively convoy escort missions between Boston, Massachusetts and Halifax. In September, he took part in Operation TORCH (landings in North Africa), providing protection for convoys between the United Kingdom and the Mediterranean. On January 13, 1943, she sank the submarine  U-224 west of Algiers. He returned to Canada in April to join the Quebec Force and escort convoys between Quebec and Sydney and between Quebec and Labrador. In September he returned to Halifax and joined the Western Local Escort Force. In 1944 she went into full refit and upon discharge was transferred to Plymouth Command, United Kingdom. He served with this command until the end of the war, returning to Canada at the end of May 1945 to be decommissioned on July 6 at Sorel, Quebec. Sold to commercial interests in 1946, she was in turn named Despina (1946), Dorothea Paxos (1947), Tanya (1948) and Medex (a name she kept in the Lloyd’s register until 1952).

HMCS Ville de Québec (2nd) (332)/Halifax-class frigate

HMCS Quebec City 332

The first of three of her class to be built at the MIL Davie shipyard in Lauzon, Quebec and designated as a French-speaking unit, the frigate HMCS Ville de Québec was launched on May 16, 1991. is that after participating in the United Nations embargo against Haiti in April 1993, the ship officially entered service in Quebec on July 14, 1994. In February 1995, it left Halifax, where it was based, to take takes part in an international exercise off the coast of Norway. In July, he headed for the Adriatic to support the embargo on arms supplies to the former Yugoslavia. In 1998, he was present at the scene of the Swissair flight disaster. In 1999, he joined the Standing Naval Force in the Atlantic of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for a period of 3 months. On August 30, 2001, she transported the ashes of Vice-Admiral HG DeWolf to Halifax Harbor where they were to be scattered in Bedford Basin; 58 years earlier, to the day, this officer had commissioned HMCS Haida , a Tribal-class destroyer. In 2008, HMCS Ville de Québec represented Canada within the 1st NATO Standing Naval Response Force Group and participated in Operation ALTAIR, as part of the Task Force deployed in the Sea of ‘Oman. In July, he visited his eponymous city on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. HMCS Ville de Québec continues to carry out missions in support of Canada’s domestic and foreign policy.

Battle honors

Gulf of Saint Lawrence 1942

Atlantic 1942-1944

Mediterranean 1943

Channel 1944-1945