| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 119 |
| Built by | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) |
| Ordered | 1 Feb 1940 |
| Laid down | 4 Mar 1940 |
| Launched | 15 Sep 1940 |
| Commissioned | 25 Nov 1940 |
| End service | 2 Jul 1945 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Fo'c's'le extention at Liverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) completed on 3 March 1944. Decommissioned 2 July 1945. Commanding Officers: Lt. Harold Victor William Gross, RCN Lt.Cdr. Reginald Jackson, RCNR T/A/Lt.Cdr. James Evelyn Mitchell, RCNVR Refitting T/Skr./Lt. John Winston Sharpe, RCNR |
Commands listed for HMCS Orillia (K 119)
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| Commander | From | To | ||
| 1 | William Edgar Slade Briggs, RCNR | 21 Nov 1940 | 4 Sep 1942 | |
| 2 | Harold Victor William Gross, RCN | 5 Sep 1942 | 13 Feb 1943 | |
| 3 | Reginald Jackson, RCNVR | 14 Feb 1943 | 16 Apr 1943 | |
| 4 | James Evelyn Mitchell, RCNVR | 17 Apr 1943 | 13 Mar 1944 | |
| 5 | John Winston Sharpe, RCNR | 8 May 1944 | 2 Jul 1945 | |
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Noteable events involving Orillia include:
24 Jun 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) picks up 37 survivors from the British merchant Kinross that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-203 in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell in position 55º23'N, 38º49'W.
10 Sep 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) begins to tow the damaged British merchant Tachee to Iceland. The Tachee was torpedoed and damaged the previous day by the German submarine U-652 north-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland in position 61º15'N, 41º05'W.
19 Sep 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) picks up 39 survivors from the British merchant Baron Pentland that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-372 north-east of Cape Farewell in position 61º15'N, 41º05'W.