EML Olev (M415)

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EML Olev M415
Career (GER)
Name:	Diana (M2664)
Operator:	German Navy
Builder:	Krogerwerft Rendsburg Germany
Launched:	13 December 1966
Commissioned:	21 September 1967
Decommissioned:	16 February 1995
Fate:	Donated to Estonia
Career (Estonia)
Name:	EML Olev (M415)
Operator:	Estonian Navy
Acquired:	05 September 1997
Badge:	Image:ENS-Olev-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:	1x40 mm/70 Bofors automatic cannon 2x 12.7 mm Browning machine gun
Notes:	Mine counter measures equipment: 2 × ECA PAP 104 Mk.5 remotely controlled submarines (ROV) with explosives contact-sweeper Mines laying capability

EML Olev (M415) is a Frauenlob-class minelayer of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 History 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Introduction

The minelayer Olev is a vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the third modernized Frauenlob class minelayer. In 2003 a cooperation contract was signed between the Paldiski city council and the minelayer Olev which gave the vessel a right to wear the Paldiski town coat of arms and to introduce the city in all foreign harbors across the world.

[edit] History

The Olev (M415) was built in West-Germany, in a Krogerwerft shipyard in Rendsburg. The vessel was launched on the 13 December 1966]] and she entered service a year later on the 21 September 1967. The German Navy decommissioned Diana and two of her twin sisters Minerva and Undine in late 1990s and gave the vessels to the Estonian Navy to operate. On the ceremony the vessel received an Estonian name Vaindlo.^[1]

[edit] Gallery

Olev in a harbor

Olev´s crew training

Olev on a patrol

[edit] See also

• BALTRON project
• ENS Vaindlo (M416)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Wikimedia Atlas of Estonia

• Estonian Navy

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