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EML Admiral Cowan (M313)
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 (Lt. Sr. Grade) ''Vanemleitnant'' 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.
==History==
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.〔(Kosovo Operations )〕
On 16 January 2000 ''Sandown'' located the wreck of the sunken scallop dredger, the ''Solway Harvester''.〔(BBC.co.uk )〕 ''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.
The Royal Navy decommissioned HMS ''Sandown'' and two of her sisters ''Bridport'' and ''Inverness'' in 2005 and on 9 October 2006 sold the vessels to the Estonian Navy. After refitting in Rosyth ''Sandown'' was formally handed over to the Estonian Navy in April 2007. Her new name comes from Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan who led the British naval forces in the Baltic in their intervention in the Russian Civil War, providing naval support to Estonia during the Estonian War of Independence.
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