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{{short description|Minelayer of the Estonian Navy}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{One source|date=February 2023}}
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| Ship caption = EML Olev M415 In Noblessner Harbor, July 2022
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| Ship country = Germany
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Germany|naval}}
| Ship name = ''Diana''
| Ship operator = [[German Navy]]
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| Ship commissioned = 21 September 1967
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| Ship decommissioned = 16 February 1995
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| Ship fate = Donated to Estonia
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| Ship country = Estonia
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| Ship name = ''Olev''
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| Ship class = [[Frauenlob-class minelayer]]
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| Ship displacement = 246 tons full
| Ship length = 37.9.1 m
| Ship beam = 8.2 m
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| Ship draught = 2.4 m
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| Ship propulsion = *2 shafts propulsors
*diesel drives
*2 MTU MB 12V 493 TY70 diesel drives
| Ship speed = 12 knots
| Ship range = {{convert|1120|km|nmi mi|abbr=on}}
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| Ship complement = 6 officers, 19 sailors
| Ship crew = 25
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| Ship sensors = *Navigation [[radar]]
*Atlas Elektronik, I-band
| Ship armament = *1 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70|40 mm /70 Bofors]] automatic cannon
*2 × 12.7 mm [[Browning M2|Browning]] machine gun
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| Ship notes = *'''Mine counter measures equipment:'''
*2 × ECA PAP 104 Mk.5 remotely controlled submarines (ROV) with explosives
*contact-sweeper
*Mines laying capability
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'''EML ''Olev''''' (M415) is a [[Frauenlob-class minelayer|''Frauenlob''-class]] [[minelayer]] of the [[Estonian Navy]] [[Estonian Mineships Division|Mineships Division]].

==Introduction==
The minelayer ''Olev'' is a vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the third modernized Frauenlob class minelayer. In 2003, a cooperation contract was signed between the [[Paldiski]] city council and the minelayer ''Olev'' which gave the vessel a right to wear the Paldiski town [[coat of arms]] and to introduce the city in all foreign harbors across the world.

==History==
The ''Olev'' (M415) was built in [[West-Germany]], in a [[Krögerwerft]] [[shipyard]] in [[Rendsburg]]. The vessel was launched on 13 December 1966, and she entered service a year later on 21 September 1967. The [[German Navy]] decommissioned ''Diana'' and two of her twin sisters [[EML Kalev (M414)|''Minerva'']] and ''[[EML Vaindlo (M416)|Undine]]'' in late 1990s and gave the vessels to the Estonian Navy to operate. On the ceremony the vessel received an Estonian name ''Olev''.<ref>http://www.mil.ee/?menu=merevagi&sisu=olev ENS Olev (M415)</ref> Olev was decommissioned in 2005 and sold in 2008. She then sat "abandoned" in Tallinn Seaplane Harbor till she was towed to [[Noblessner]], where its superstructure got a new coat of paint. She is currently sitting in Noblessner Harbor.

[[File:EML Olev M415.png|thumb|left|EML Olev (1999)]]

==See also==
*[[Baltic Naval Squadron]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080502232249/http://www.mil.ee/uusmil/index.php?menu=merevagi&sisu=mev Estonian Navy]

{{Estonian Mineships Division}}

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[[Category:Frauenlob-class minesweepers]]
[[Category:Ships built in Rendsburg]]
[[Category:1966 ships]]
[[Category:Cold War minesweepers of Germany]]
[[Category:Frauenlob-class minesweepers of the Estonian Navy]]
[[Category:Estonian Mineships Division]]

EML Olev - Revision history

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