EML Olev

EML Olev (M415) is a Frauenlob-class minelayer of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division.

EML Olev M415 In Noblessner Harbor, July 2022
History
Germany
Name	Diana
Operator	German Navy
Builder	Krögerwerft Rendsburg Germany
Launched	13 December 1966
Commissioned	21 September 1967
Decommissioned	16 February 1995
Fate	Donated to Estonia
Estonia
Name	Olev
Operator	Estonian Navy
Acquired	5 September 1997
Decommissioned	2005
Fate	Waiting to be scrapped in Noblessner Sea port
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	1 × 40 mm /70 Bofors automatic cannon 2 × 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 Mines laying capability

Introduction

The minelayer Olev is a vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the third modernized Frauenlob class minelayer. In 2003, a cooperation contract was signed between the Paldiski city council and the minelayer Olev which gave the vessel a right to wear the Paldiski town coat of arms and to introduce the city in all foreign harbors across the world.

History

The Olev (M415) was built in West-Germany, in a Krögerwerft shipyard in Rendsburg. The vessel was launched on 13 December 1966, and she entered service a year later on 21 September 1967. The German Navy decommissioned Diana and two of her twin sisters Minerva and Undine in late 1990s and gave the vessels to the Estonian Navy to operate. On the ceremony the vessel received an Estonian name Olev. Olev was decommissioned in 2005 and sold in 2008. She then sat "abandoned" in Tallinn Seaplane Harbor till she was towed to Noblessner, where its superstructure got a new coat of paint. She is currently sitting in Noblessner Harbor.

Olev in Stockholm 1999

See also

• Baltic Naval Squadron

External links

• Estonian Navy