EML Admiral Cowan
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Sandown.
EML Admiral Cowan (M313) is a Sandown-class minehunter. Formerly HMS Sandown, lead ship of her class of the Royal Navy, she is now an Estonian Navy ship. Renamed EML Admiral Cowan, she is the flagship of the Estonian Navy and part of the Estonian Navy's mine sweeping flotilla. Admiral Cowan is the lead vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first of the three modernised Sandown class minehunters received.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Sandown (M101) |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
Launched | 16 April 1988 |
Sponsored by | The Duchess of Gloucester |
Commissioned | 9 June 1989 |
Decommissioned | 2005 |
Fate | Sold to Estonia |
Estonia | |
Name | EML Admiral Cowan (M313) |
Namesake | Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan |
Operator | Estonian Navy |
Acquired | April 2007 |
Motto | Ad Omnia Paratus |
Status | in active service, as of 2019[update] |
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Class and type | Sandown class minehunter |
Displacement | 450 tons full |
Length | 52.6 m (173 ft) |
Beam | 10.5 m (34 ft) |
Draught | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) |
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Complement | 7 officers, 29 sailors |
Crew | 36 |
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