EML Kalev M414 |
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| Career (Germany) | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Frauenlob class minesweeper |
| 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 minesweeper of the Estonian Navy and belonged into the Estonian Navy Mineships Division.
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The minesweeper Kalev was a vessel in the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first modernized Frauenlob class minesweeper. At the beginning of 2004 the “Kalev” was discharged from service and transferred to the Estonian Maritime Museum.
The EML Kalev (M414) is built in West-Germany, in the Krogerwerft shipyard in Rendsburg. The vessel was launched on the 25 August 1966 and she entered service on 16 June 1967. It was one of 10 ships of class 394 with home port Neustadt i. Holstein. The German Navy decommissioned 5 of these ships in 1995 Minerva (Kalev) and her sister Diana (Olev) were given to the Estonian Navy to operate. On the ceremony the vessel received an Estonian name Kalev. The third sister Undine was handed over to the Estonian Navy in 2001 as Vaindlo. In 2004 the Estonian Navy decommissioned the ships and Kalev was handed to the Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn. [1][2]
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