| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 118 |
| Built by | Kingston Shipbuilding Co. (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) |
| Ordered | 7 Feb 1940 |
| Laid down | 20 Mar 1940 |
| Launched | 31 Aug 1940 |
| Commissioned | 12 May 1941 |
| End service | 12 Jul 1945 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Fo'c's'le extention at Montreal (Quibec, Canada) completed on 19 october 1943. Decommissioned 12 July 1945. |
Commands listed for HMCS Napanee (K 118)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | A/Lt.Cdr. Andrew Hedley Dobson, RCNR | 10 Mar 1941 | 8 Dec 1941 |
| 2 | T/Lt. Stuart Henderson, RCNR | 9 Dec 1941 | 2 Jun 1944 |
| 3 | T/Lt. George Alvin Powell, RCNVR | 3 Jun 1944 | 12 Jul 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Napanee include:
27 Dec 1942
The German submarine
U-356 was sunk in the North Atlantic north of the Azores, in position 43º30'N, 25º40'W, by depth charges from the Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Laurent (A/Cdr. G.S. Windeyer, RCN) and the Canadian corvettes HMCS Chilliwack (T/A/Lt.Cdr. L.L. Foxall, RCNR), HMCS Battleford (T/Lt. F.A. Beck, RCNVR) and HMCS Napanee (T/Lt. S. Henderson, RCNR).
HMCS Napanee also picks up 25 survivors from the British merchant King Edward that was one of U-356's last vivtims.
HMCS Napanee also picks up 18 survivors from the Dutch merchant Soekaboemi that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-356. The damaged Soekaboemi was later sunk by U-441. (see map)
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