HMCS Stormont (K327) |
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| Career (Canada) | Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Namesake: | Stormont, Ontario |
| Builder: | Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal |
| Laid down: | 23 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 14 July 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 27 November 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 November 1945 |
| Honours and awards: |
Arctic 1944, Atlantic 1944-45, English Channel 1944, Normandy 1944 |
| Fate: | Sold to Aristotle Onasis as yacht Christina O.. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | River-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,445 long tons (1,468 t; 1,618 ST) 2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 ST) (deep load) |
| Length: | 283 ft (86.26 m) p/p 301.25 ft (91.82 m)o/a |
| Beam: | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37.0 km/h) 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships) |
| Range: | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 ST) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
| Complement: | 157 |
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HMCS Stormont (K327) was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1943-1945.
Named after Stormont, Ontario, she was built by Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal. She was commissioned into the RCN at Quebec City on 27 November 1943 with the pennant K327.
Stormont joined the RCN's Atlantic Fleet at Halifax, Nova Scotia and was assigned to convoy escort operations during the Battle of the Atlantic. She also served as one of 57 RCN vessels to support Operation Neptune, the amphibious invasion of Normandy, France that were part of D-Day (Operation Overlord).
Following the war, she was decommissioned by the RCN on 9 November 1945 and placed in reserve.
In 1954, she was sold to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. She underwent an extensive refit as the luxury yacht, the Christina O, named after his daughter Christina Onassis. After the elder Onassis died in 1975, Christina inherited the yacht, and gave her to the Greek government as a presidential yacht in 1978.
She was renamed the Argo for a number of years, but was eventually allowed to deteriorate. In 1998, she was purchased by another Greek shipowner, John Paul Papanicolaou, who restored her and renamed her Christina O. She continues to sail to this day.
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