EML Lembit

Stern quarter view of EML Lembit, underway while in service.
History
Estonia
Name	Lembit
Namesake	Lembitu
Ordered	12 December 1934
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs
Laid down	19 June 1935
Launched	7 July 1936 13:07
Commissioned	14 May 1937
In service	1937 - 1940
Homeport	Tallinn
Motto	"Vääri oma nime" ("Be worthy of your name")
Captured	Soviet Union in 1940
Soviet Union
Name	Lembit
In service	1940 - 1979
Out of service	1979
Homeport	Tallinn, Leningrad
Nickname(s)	"Immortal submarine"
Honours and awards	Order of Red Banner (1945)
Captured	From Estonia in 1940
Fate	Museum ship from 1979 - Estonian Maritime Museum, but still guarded by the Soviet Navy
Estonia
Name	Lembit
Operator	Estonian Maritime Museum
Acquired	From the Soviet Navy, on 27 April 1992
Recommissioned	(Honorary) "Estonian Navy vessel nr.1" as of 2 August 1994
Decommissioned	19 May 2011
Homeport	Tallinn
Honours and awards	Estonian Navy vessel nr.1 (1994)
Fate	Pulled out of water on 21 May 2011, restored and now in a museum building.
General characteristics
Class and type	Kalev-class submarine
Tonnage	570 (in its current condition)
Displacement	665 tons surfaced 853 tons submerged
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	two diesel Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd. (1,200 hp (890 kW; 1,200 PS))[clarification needed] two Metropolitan-Vickers electric motors (790 hp (590 kW; 800 PS))[clarification needed]
Speed	surfaced - 13.5 kn (15.5 mph; 25.0 km/h) submerged - 8.5 kn (9.8 mph; 15.7 km/h)
Test depth	120 m (390 ft)
Complement	4 officers + 28 sailors (Estonian Navy) 7 officers + 31 sailors (Soviet Navy)
Armament	4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (bow, 8 torpedoes) 1 × 40 mm Bofors AA gun 1 × 7.7 mm Lewis AA machine gun 24 mines

EML Lembit is one of two Kalev-class mine-laying submarines built for the Republic of Estonia before World War II, and is now a museum ship in Tallinn. She was launched in 1936 at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, and served in the Estonian Navy and the Soviet Navy. Until she was hauled out on 21 May 2011, Lembit was the oldest submarine still afloat in the world.^{[citation needed]} Her sister ship, Kalev, was sunk in October 1941. Lembit is named for Lembitu, an Estonian ruler who resisted the Livonian Crusades.