HMS Sandown (M101)
EML Admiral Cowan M313
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Sandown (M101) |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Launched: | 16 April 1988 |
| Commissioned: | 9 June 1989 |
| Decommissioned: | 2005 |
| Fate: | Sold to Estonia |
 Estonia
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| Name: | EML Admiral Cowan (M313) |
| Namesake: | Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan |
| Operator: | Estonian Navy |
| Acquired: | April 2007 |
| Motto: | Ad Omnia Paratus |
| Badge: |  |
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| Class and type: | Sandown class minehunter |
| Displacement: | 450 tons full |
| Length: | 52.6 m |
| Beam: | 10.5 m |
| Draught: | 2.4 m |
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| Speed: | 13 knots diesel, 6.5 knots electric |
| Complement: | 7 officers, 27 sailors |
| Crew: | 34 |
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| Armament: | 3 × Browning 12.7 mm MG gun |
| Armour: | fibreglass |
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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. The commanding officer of the vessel is (LCDR) kaptenmajor Tanel Leetna. Admiral Cowan is the lead vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first of the three modernised Sandown class minehunters received.
HMS Sandown was built by Vosper Thornycroft and launched on 16 April 1988 by the Duchess of Gloucester, as the lead ship of the 12 ship class of Sandown class minehunters, and entered service a year later on 9 June 1989. She participated in a number of operations in support of the British fleet, including operating as part of a NATO-led operation between 12 June - 26 August 1999, along with the Hunt class Mine countermeasure vessel HMS Atherstone and the survey ship HMS Bulldog. The operation was intended to clear the Adriatic of bombs jettisoned during the Kosovo campaign. Together Sandown and Atherstone accounted for about 20% of the 93 bombs and missiles that were located and destroyed.
On 16 January 2000 Sandown located the wreck of the sunken scallop dredger, the Solway Harvester.Sandown spent July 2002 on a Joint Maritime Course, after which she deployed to the Mediterranean to take part in the Argonaut 02 exercises, which lasted until Christmas. Sandown was also deployed as part of Operation Telic, to clear mines in the Persian Gulf, and sweep passages into Iraqi ports.
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