- Development history
- Service history
- As a museum exhibit
- See also
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Name=Kalev class | Builders=Vickers Armstrong | EST}} | Class before= | Class after= | Subclasses= | Cost= | Built range= | In service range= | In commission range=1936 - 1979 | Total ships building= | Total ships planned= | Total ships completed=2 | Total ships cancelled= | Total ships active= | Total ships laid up= | Total ships lost=1 | Total ships retired= | Total ships preserved=1
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship type=Submarine | Ship tonnage=570 (in its current condition) | Ship displacement=*665 tons surfaced | 59.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 7.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 3.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship draft= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion= | 13.5|kn}}- submerged - {{convert|8.5|kn}}
| Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship complement=4 officers + 28 enlisted | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*4 × bow torpedo tubes- (8 21 inch (533 mm)torpedoes)
- 1 × {{convert|40|mm|in|abbr=on|1}} Bofors AA gun
- 1 × {{convert|.303|in|mm|abbr=on}} Lewis AA gun
- 20 mines
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}} | The Kalev class consisted of two mine laying submarines built for the Estonian Navy. Development historyThe newly independent Republic of Estonia followed the Finnish naval armament program and the common top secret defence cooperation in acquiring submarines. Unlike the German-designed Finnish subs, Estonia opted for British-built submarines. Both boats of the class, {{ship|EML|Kalev|1936|2}} and {{ship|EML|Lembit||2}}, were built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, in the United Kingdom.[1] Service historyThe two subs were ordered in 1934 and delivered in 1937. After the Soviet annexation of Estonia in 1940 the Estonian Navy was integrated into the Soviet Baltic Fleet. The Kalev-class submarines were commissioned into the Soviet Navy on September 18, 1940. Kalev was sunk outside Hanko, Finland in 1941, but Lembit continued a successful campaign against Swedish iron ore transports to Germany. Lembit was decommissioned in 1979. She is now preserved as a museum ship at the Estonian Maritime Museum Lennusadam (Seaplane harbour/Hydroplane port), Tallinn. As a museum exhibit{{main|EML Lembit}}See also- Estonian Navy
- Finnish–Estonian defense cooperation
- EML Kalev (1936)
- ENS Lembit
References1. ^Allied Warships - Kalev class
External links- Submarine Lembit - Estonian Maritime Museum
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080113095757/http://users.tkk.fi/~andres/models_lembit.html Kalev-class submarine (Kalev or Lembit)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110709222857/http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk/archive/browser.asp?deepcriteria=Kalev&searchtype=1 The Vickers Photographic Archive] (search for Kalev)
- Lembit Submarine - Tallinn
- Allied Warships - Kalev class
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