HMCS Stormont (K327) | |
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![]() HMCS Stormont | |
Career (Canada) | |
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: |
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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[]
- ↑ Dan Conlin, "Christina O: From Snowy Nova Scotia to the Sunny Mediterranean, How a Canadian Frigate Became the World's Most Famous Super Yacht", The Marine Curator: Artifacts, Images and History from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic July 5, 2013
- ↑ Randy Boswell, "‘The last word in opulence’: Lavishly refitted D-Day warship, Christina O, on sale for $34-million", The National Post, July 4, 2013
- HMCS Stormont (K327) - readyayeready.com
- HMCS Stormont (K327) - uboat.net
- List of RCN warships participating in D-Day.
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- Usk
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- HMS Wear (K230)
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- Wentworth
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- Croix de Lorraine (ex-Strule)
- La Découverte / Lucifer (ex-Windrush)
- L'Escarmouche / L'Ailette (ex-Frome)
- La Surprise (ex-Torridge)
- Tonkinois / La Confiance (ex-Moyola)
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- Johan Maurits van Nassau (ex-Ribble (K251))
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