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Tuesday 2 December 2014

Estonian mile hunter (1990) EML Sakala (M 314) 2008-


Inner harbours, Amsterdam, Netherlands 30 November 2014

Launched on 27 February 1990 as the British HMS Inverness (M102) as part of the Sandown-class on a Vosper Thornycroft shipyard 27 February 1990, commissioned on 24 January 1991, paid off on 15 November 2005, decommissioned in 2005, sold to Estonia and handed over on 24 January 2008 and renamed Sakala. With a displacement of 450 tons (full load) x 52,6 x 10,5 x 2,4 metres. Speed 6,5 (electric)-13 (diesel) knots. Her crew numbers 34 men. The armament consist of 3-12,7mm/0.50 Browning machineguns.