EML Kalev (M414)

EML Kalev (M414) was a Frauenlob-class minesweeper of the Estonian Navy and belonged into the Estonian Navy Mineships Division.

Introduction
The minesweeper Kalev was a vessel in the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first modernized Frauenlob class minesweeper. At the beginning of 2004 the "Kalev" was discharged from service and transferred to the Estonian Maritime Museum.

History
The EML Kalev (M414) is built in West-Germany, in the Krogerwerft shipyard in Rendsburg. The vessel was launched on 25 August 1966 and she entered service on 16 June 1967. It was one of 10 ships of class 394 with home port Neustadt i. Holstein. The German Navy decommissioned 5 of these ships in 1995 Minerva (Kalev) and her sister Diana (Olev) were given to the Estonian Navy to operate. On the ceremony the vessel received an Estonian name Kalev. The third sister Undine was handed over to the Estonian Navy in 2001 as Vaindlo. In 2004 the Estonian Navy decommissioned the ships and Kalev was handed to the Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn.