HMCS Ville de Québec was a Royal Canadian Navy revised Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War.

[3][4][5] The "corvette" designation was created by the French as a class of small warships; the Royal Navy borrowed the term for a period but discontinued its use in 1877.

[9] Ville de Québec was ordered as part of the Revised 1940–41 Flower-class building program.

They also came with heavier secondary armament with 20 mm anti-aircraft guns carried on the extended bridge wings.

[9] Ville de Québec was laid down by Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co. at Quebec City on 7 June 1941 and launched 12 November 1941.

[11] In September 1942, Ville de Québec was allocated for Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa.

On 28 October 1942, while crossing to the United Kingdom she and HMCS Alberni picked up 81 survivors from the British whale factory ship Sourabaya that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day in the North Atlantic.

[10] She arrived at Derry on 10 November and spent the next four months escorting convoys between the United Kingdom and Gibraltar.

[11] While on escort duty she sank the U-224 in the western Mediterranean Sea west of Algiers by ramming and depth charges.