EML Admiral Cowan

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EML Admiral Cowan M313
History
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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General characteristics
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)
Propulsion	2 x Paxman Valenta 6RPA200M diesels, 3 x Rolls-Royce (Perkins) CV8-250G drives 2 x Combimac electric motors (100 kWh) 2 x Voith-Schneider propulsors 2 x Schottel bow thrusters
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) diesel 6.5 knots (12.0 km/h; 7.5 mph) electric
Complement	7 officers, 29 sailors
Crew	36
Sensors and processing systems	Plessey Nautis M C2 system, later replaced by Thales M-CUBE Type 1007 navigation radar Thales 2093 hull mounted mine hunting sonar, later replaced by Thales 2193
Armament	1 x ZU-23-2 23 mm autocannon 2 × Browning 12.7 mm machine guns 3 x Rheinmetall MG 3 7.62 mm machine guns [note 1]
Notes	Mine counter measures equipment: Atlas Elektronik Seafox MIDS Klein Marine Systems System 5000 side scan sonar Remus 100 AUV [1]

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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