EML Ugandi
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Bridport.
EML Ugandi is a Sandown-class minehunter commissioned by the Estonian Navy in 2009. Ugandi is a former British Royal Navy vessel HMS Bridport built by Woolston Yard of Southampton-based shipbuilders Vosper Thornycroft.
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Name | HMS Bridport |
Namesake | Bridport |
Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
Launched | 20 July 1992 |
Commissioned | 6 November 1993 |
Decommissioned | 2004 |
Identification | Pennant number M105 |
Fate | Sold to Estonia |
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Name | EML Ugandi |
Namesake | Ugandi |
Acquired | 2006 |
In service | 22 January 2009 |
Homeport | Tallinn |
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Status | Active |
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Class and type | Sandown-class minehunter |
Displacement | 450 tons full |
Length | 52.6 m (172.6 ft) |
Beam | 10.5 m (34.4 ft) |
Draught | 2.4 m (7.9 ft) |
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Complement | 7 officers, 18 sailors |
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Notes | Built of glass reinforced plastic |
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The ship is the third and final Sandown-class vessel to join the naval force after its mine countermeasures vessel modernization programme.[1] She is named after an ancient Estonian county Ugandi, between the east coast of Lake Võrtsjärv and west coast of Lake Pskov, bordered by Vaiga, Mõhu, Nurmekund, Sakala, Latgale, and Pskov.[2]