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HMCS Stormont (K327)
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HMCS Stormont
Career (Canada) Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom
Name: HMCS Stormont
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
Identification: Pennant number: K327
Honours and
awards:
Arctic 1944, Atlantic 1944-45, English Channel 1944, Normandy 1944
Fate: Sold to Aristotle Onasis as yacht Christina
General characteristics
Class & type: River-class frigate
Displacement: 1,445 long tons (1,468 t; 1,618 short tons)
2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 short tons) (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 short tons) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h)
Complement: 157
Armament:
  • 2 x QF 4 in (102 mm) /45 Mk. XVI on twin mount HA/LA Mk.XIX
  • 1 x QF 12 pdr (3 in / 76 mm) 12 cwt /50 Mk. V on mounting HA/LA Mk.IX (not all ships)
  • 8 x 20 mm QF Oerlikon A/A on twin mounts Mk.V
  • 1 x Hedgehog 24 spigot A/S projector
  • up to 150 depth charges

HMCS Stormont 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 under command of George Myra, an experienced pre-war merchant captain who had served as the alternate captain of the famous schooner Bluenose. After training at St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, she was assigned to convoy escort operations during the Battle of the Atlantic. She escorted convoys on the Murmansk run to the Kola Inlet and to Gibraltor. 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).[1]

Following the war, she was decommissioned by the RCN on 9 November 1945 and placed in reserve.

Civilian use[]

In 1954, she was sold to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. She underwent a four million dollar rebuild as the luxury yacht Christina, named after his daughter Christina Onassis.[2] 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 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.

See also[]

References[]


  • HMS Tweed (K250)
  • Usk
  • HMS Waveney (K248)
  • HMS Wear (K230)
  • Windrush
  • HMS Wye (K371)

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