EML Wambola (M311)

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EML Wambola M311
Career (GER) GER Ensign
Name: Cuxhaven (M1078)
Operator: German Navy
Builder: Burmeister-Werft Bremen-Burg, Germany
Launched: 11 March 1959
Commissioned: 1959
Decommissioned: 08 February 2000
Fate: Sold to Estonia
Career (Estonia) Estonian Ensign
Name: EML Wambola (M311)
Operator: Estonian Navy
Acquired: February 2000
Motto: Ad unquem
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Lindau class minehunter
Displacement: 495 tons full
Length: 47.1 m
Beam: 8.3 m
Draught: 3.7 m
Propulsion: 2 shafts propulsors
diesel drives
2 x 1,470 kW Maybach MD 871 um/1-D drives
5 x 70 kW disel drives RHS 518 Dn 5
Speed: 16.5 knots
Range: 1360 km
Complement: 6 officers, 31 sailors
Crew: 37
Sensors and
processing systems:		 Navigation radar
Hull-mounted DSQS-11 mine-detection sonar
Armament: 1 x 40mm/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

EML Wambola (M311) is a Lindau-class minehunter of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division. The commanding officer of the vessel is Captain Jaanus Antson.

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[edit] Introduction

The minehunter Wambola is the first vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first modernized Lindau class minehunter. A black keel on a silver background with a golden battle-axe is on the coat of arms of the vessel. The battle-axe is a weapon used by the ancient Estonians which also symbolizes their fighting spirit and strength. The ships motto is the Latin Ad unquem which is in English "Onto the nail head". The coat of arms was designed by Priit Herodes. In 2000 a cooperation contract was signed between the Pärnu city council and the minehunter Wambola which gave the vessel a right to wear the Pärnu town coat of arms and to introduce the city in all foreign harbors across the world.

[edit] History

The EML Wambola (M311) was built in West Germany, in a Burmester shipyard in Bremen. The vessel was launched on the 11 March 1959 and she entered service on the same year in 1959. The ships name comes from the city Cuxhaven in Germany. Originally Cuxhaven was a minelayer but was transformed into a minehunter in late 1970s. The German Navy decommissioned Cuxhaven and one of her twin sisters Lindau on 9 October 2003 and gave the vessels to the Estonian Navy to operate. On the ceremony the vessel received an Estonian name Wambola.[1]

[edit] Gallery

Wambola in a harbor

Wambola´s crew training

Wambola on a patrol

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.mil.ee/?menu=merevagi&sisu=wambola ENS Wambola (M311)

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