EML Kalev
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History | |
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Estonia | |
Name | Kalev |
Operator | Estonian Navy |
Ordered | 12 December 1934 |
Builder | Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd., United Kingdom |
Laid down | May 1935 |
Launched | 7 July 1936 13:20 |
Commissioned | 12 March 1937 |
In service | 1937–1940 |
Out of service | 1940 |
Homeport | Tallinn |
Nickname(s) | Kalev |
Captured | by USSR in 1940 |
Soviet Union | |
Name | Kalev |
Operator | Soviet Navy |
In service | 1940 - 1941 |
Out of service | 1941 |
Homeport | Tallinn, Leningrad |
Captured | from Estonia in 1940 |
Fate | missing after 29 October 1941 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kalev-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 59.5 m (195 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 7.5 m (25 ft) 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) |
Draught | 3.6 m (12 ft) 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Test depth | 120 m (390 ft) |
Complement | 4 officers + 28 sailors |
Armament |
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EML Kalev was one of two submarines of the Republic of Estonia launched in 1936 at Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd. in England. Her sister, Lembit, survived the Second World War.