HMCS Stormont earned battle honours in the Arctic, Atlantic, English Channel, and Normandy. Her war record therefore spanned several of the environments in which River-class escorts were expected to work. After the conflict, Aristotle Onassis converted the frigate into the yacht Christina O. The hull survives in that radically altered civilian form. Stormont illustrates both the class's wartime reach and the transformations that complicate claims about which original Rivers remain.
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HMCS Stormont became the yacht Christina O
Stormont's battle honours and conversion into Aristotle Onassis's Christina O place wartime escort service beside an extraordinary postwar civilian afterlife.