EML Kalev (M414)

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

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.

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". [http://www.meremuuseum.ee/?op=body&id=46 ENS Kalev (M414)]

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