EML Wambola (M311)
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 EML Wambola M311 |
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| Career (GER) |  |
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| 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) |  |
| 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
- BALTRON project
- EML Sulev (M312)
- EML Admiral Cowan (M313)
- EML Sakala (M314)
- EML Ugandi (M315)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.mil.ee/?menu=merevagi&sisu=wambola ENS Wambola (M311)
[edit] External links
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