EML Kalev (M414)

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EML Kalev M414
Career (GER)
Name:	Minerva (M2663)
Operator:	German Navy
Builder:	Krogerwerft Rendsburg Germany
Launched:	25 August 1966
Commissioned:	16 June 1967
Decommissioned:	16 February 1995
Fate:	Donated to Estonia
Career (Estonia)
Name:	EML Kalev (M414)
Operator:	Estonian Navy
Acquired:	05 September 1997
Decommissioned:	2004
Fate:	since 2004 museum ship Estonian Maritime Museum
Badge:	Image:ENS-Kalev-vapp.jpg
General characteristics
Class and type:	Frauenlob class minelayer
Displacement:	246 tons full
Length:	37.9.1 m
Beam:	8.2 m
Draught:	2.4 m
Propulsion:	2 shafts propulsors diesel drives 2 MTU MB 12V 493 TY70 diesel drives
Speed:	12 knots
Range:	1120 km
Complement:	6 officers, 19 sailors
Crew:	25
Sensors and processing systems:	Navigation radar Atlas Elektronik, I-band
Armament:	1x40mm/70 Bofors automatic cannon 2x 12.7 mm Browning MG gun
Notes:	mines laying capability

EML Kalev (M414) was a Frauenlob-class minelayer of the Estonian Navy and belonged into the Estonian Navy Mineships Division.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 History 3 Gallery 3.1 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Introduction

The minelayer Kalev was a vessel in the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first modernized Frauenlob class minelayer. At the beginning of 2004 the “Kalev” was discharged from service and transferred to the Estonian Maritime Museum.

[edit] History

The EML Kalev (M414) is built in West-Germany, in a Krogerwerft shipyard in Rendsburg. The vessel was launched on the 25 August 1966 and she entered service on 16 June 1967. The German Navy decommissioned Minerva and two of her twin sisters Undine and Diana in late 1990s and gave the vessels to the Estonian Navy to operate. On the ceremony the vessel received an Estonian name Kalev.^[1]

[edit] Gallery

Kalev in a museum

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Wikimedia Atlas of Estonia

• Estonian Navy

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