EML Admiral Cowan (M313)
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 EML Admiral Cowan M313 |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| 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) |
| Operator: | Estonian Navy |
| Acquired: | April 2006 |
| Motto: | Ad Omnia Paratus |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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.
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[edit] Introduction
The minehunter Admiral Cowan is the third vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first modernized Sandown class minehunter. The coat of arms is a slope red cross on a silver shield and a red lily on the heater. The shield is placed into a blue ring which is surrounded by the golden ship rope outside the shield. The ship's coat of arms is based on an Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan's family coat of arms. The ship's motto is Ad Omnia Paratus (Latin) - in English "Always ready". The coat of arms was designed by Priit Herodes. In 2007 the Estonian Navy named the British-made minehunter of the Sandown class the Admiral Cowan.
[edit] History
Sandown (RN pennant number M101) was built in 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 Walter 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. During the ceremony, the vessel's coat of arms was presented by Queen Elizabeth on 20 October 2006 in Tallinn.[1][2]
[edit] Gallery
 Cowan´s undocking |
 Cowan´s crew |
 Cowan on a patrol |
[edit] See also
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- ^ 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
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