EML Vaindlo

EML Vaindlo (M416) was a Frauenlob-class minelayer of the Estonian Navy and belonged into the Estonian Navy Mineships Division.

EML Vaindlo (M416)
History
Germany
Name: Undine
Operator: German Navy
Builder: Krögerwerft Rendsburg Germany
Launched: 16 May 1966
Commissioned: 1967
Decommissioned: 2002
Fate: Donated to Estonia 2002
Estonia
Name: Vaindlo
Operator: Estonian Navy
Acquired: 4 February 2003
Commissioned: 2003
Decommissioned: 2005
Motto: Memento
Fate: Scrapped in 2017
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Frauenlob-class minelayer
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: 1,120 km (600 nmi; 700 mi)
Complement: 6 officers, 19 sailors
Crew: 25
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Navigation radar
  • Atlas Elektronik, I-band
Armament:
Notes:
  • Mine counter measures equipment:
  • 2 × ECA PAP 104 Mk.5 remotely controlled submarines (ROV) with explosives
  • contact-sweeper
  • Mines laying capability

Introduction

The minelayer Vaindlo is a vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the second modernized Frauenlob class minelayer. A silver star cross represents the light tower on the coat of arms of the vessel. The light tower also symbolizes the international connections between Estonia and her allies. The Red Saint George remembers the fallen British sailors in 1721, whose memorial plate is situated at Vaindloo island. The star cross is placed on Vihula´s municipality coat of arms and combined with the golden and silver lines they represent the ancient Estonian agriculture. The ship's motto is in Latin "Memento" which means in English "Remember". The coat of arms was designed by Priit Herodes. In 2003 a cooperation contract was signed between the Kunda city council and the minelayer Vaindlo which gave the vessel a right to wear the Kunda town coat of arms and to introduce the city in all foreign harbors across the world.

History

EML Vaindlo (M416) was built in West-Germany, at the Krögerwerft shipyard in Rendsburg for the Bundesmarine as Undine. The vessel was launched on the 16 May 1966 and entered service a year later in 1967. The German Navy decommissioned her in 2002 and gave the ship to the Estonian Navy who renamed her Vaindlo. She was broken up at Tallinn in September 2017.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Vaindlo (6131833)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 13 December 2018.

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