EML Admiral Cowan (M313) | |
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![]() EML Admiral Cowan M313 | |
Career (United Kingdom) | |
Name: | HMS Sandown (M101) |
Operator: | Royal Navy |
Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
Launched: | 16 April 1988 |
Commissioned: | 9 June 1989 |
Decommissioned: | 2005 |
Fate: | Sold to Estonia |
Career (Estonia) | ![]() |
Name: | EML Admiral Cowan (M313) |
Namesake: | Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan |
Operator: | Estonian Navy |
Acquired: | April 2006 |
Motto: | Ad Omnia Paratus |
Badge: |
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General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Sandown class minehunter |
Displacement: | 450 tons full |
Length: | 52.6 m |
Beam: | 10.5 m |
Draught: | 2.4 m |
Propulsion: |
2 shafts Voith-Schneider propulsors diesel-electric drives Paxman Valenta 6RPA200M diesels, 2 Rolls Royce (Perkins) CV8-250G drives |
Speed: | 13 knots diesel, 6.5 knots electric |
Complement: | 7 officers, 27 sailors |
Crew: | 34 |
Sensors and processing systems: |
Type 1007 navigation radar Thales 2093 variable-depth mine hunting sonar |
Armament: | 3 × Browning 12.7 mm MG gun |
Armour: | fibreglass |
Notes: |
Mine counter measures equipment: Atlas Elektronik Seafox MIDS |
EML Admiral Cowan (M313) is a Sandown-class minehunter, the former HMS Sandown lead ship of her class of the Royal Navy, now of the Estonian Navy. She is part of the Estonian Navy's Mineships Division. The commanding officer of the vessel is Lieutenant Commander Johan-Elias Seljamaa. Admiral Cowan is the third vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first modernised Sandown class minehunter.
History[]
Sandown (M101) was built in the United Kingdom, in a Vosper Thornycroft shipyard. The vessel was launched on 16 April 1988 and entered service a year later on 9 June 1989. The Royal Navy decommissioned HMS Sandown and two of her sisters Bridport and Inverness on 9 October 2006 and sold the vessels to the Estonian Navy. Her new name comes from Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan who led the British naval forces in the Baltic in their intervention in the Russian Civil War, providing naval support to Estonia during the Estonian War of Independence.
Coat of arms[]
The vessel's coat of arms was presented by Queen Elizabeth on 20 October 2006 in Tallinn.[1][2] The coat of arms is a red saltire cross on a silver shield and above, a red fleur de lys (lily). The shield is placed into a blue ring which is surrounded by a golden ship's rope. The ship's coat of arms is based on Walter Cowan's family arms. The coat of arms was designed by Priit Herodes. The ship's motto is Ad Omnia Paratus (Latin) - in English "Prepared for Anything".
See also[]
- BALTRON project
- Mineships Division
References[]
- ↑ http://mil.ee/?menu=merevagi&sisu=cowan ENS Admiral Cowan (M313)
- ↑ http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item510_SANDOWN.htm HMS Sandown handed over to Estonian Navy
External links[]
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