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ESTONIAN NAVY (ESTONIA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

OLEV minesweeping boats

Olev 1919

Names

Olev (ex-M.8 (Теплоход №8 <Teplokhod No8>)), 1936- Vaindlo; Lehtma (ex-M.10 (Теплоход №10 <Teplokhod No10))

Builders

Vega Bureau, Borgo, Russia

Completed

Olev: 10/1916 // 1/1919

Lehtma: 5/1917 // 1/1919

Losses

Vaindlo (13/8/1940 Soviet Вайндло <Vayndlo>)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1927: Lehtma

 

 

Displacement normal, t

46

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

23.2

Breadth, m

5.00

Draught, m

1.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Bolinder semi-diesels

Power, h. p.

60

Max speed, kts

7.2

Fuel, t

diesel oil 2.2

Endurance, nm(kts) 690(5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 40 mines, sweeps

Complement 8

Ship project history: Russian minelaying boats abandoned by Russians in February 1918, captured by Germans and transferred them to Estonians as minesweepers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Vaindlo was incorporated into Baltic Fleet 13/8/1940.

 

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