HMCS Stormont
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History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Stormont |
Namesake | Stormont, Ontario |
Ordered | October 1941 |
Builder | Canadian Vickers, Montreal |
Yard number | 167 |
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[1] |
Fate | Sold to Aristotle Onassis as yacht Christina |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
Speed |
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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 |
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HMCS Stormont is a former River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic, but saw service in the Arctic Ocean. She was named for Stormont, Ontario. After the war she was turned into the luxury yacht Christina by Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis. She continues to sail.
Stormont was ordered October 1941 as part of the 1942–1943 River-class building program.[2][3] She was laid down on 23 December 1942 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. at Montreal and launched 14 July 1943.[3] She was commissioned into the RCN at Quebec City on 27 November 1943 with the pennant K327.[2]