HMS Bridport (M105)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Bridport.
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Bridport (M105)
Operator: Royal Navy
Builder: Vosper Thornycroft
Launched: 20 July 1992
Commissioned: 6 November 1993
Decommissioned: 2004
Fate: Sold to Estonia
Estonia
Name: EML Ugandi (M315)
Operator: Estonian Navy
In service: January 22, 2009
General characteristics
Class and type: Sandown class minehunter
Displacement: 484 tons full
Length: 52.5 m
Beam: 10.9 m
Draught: 2.3 m
Propulsion:
Speed: 13 knots diesel, 6.5 knots electric
Complement: 34 (7 officers, 27 ratings)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Type 1007 navigation radar
  • Type 2093 variable-depth mine hunting sonar
Armament:
  • 1 × Oerlikon 30 mm KCB gun on DS-30B mount
  • 2 × 7.62 mm L7 GPMG machine guns
  • Wallop Defence Systems Barricade Mk. III countermeasure launchers
  • Irvin Aerospace Replica Decoy launchers
Notes:
  • Mine counter measures equipment:
  • prepared for SeaFox mine disposal system
  • Clearance divers

HMS Bridport (M105) was a Sandown-class minehunter of the British Royal Navy. She was decommissioned in 2004, and sold to the Estonian Navy.

Career

Bridport was built by Woolston Yard of Southampton-based shipbuilders Vosper Thornycroft as one of the 12 ship class of Sandown-class minehunters.

In July 2004, the UK Ministry of Defence announced that as part of the restructuring of the Navy, the two oldest and one other Sandown-class minehunters would be retired by April 2005. Bridport was decommissioned and was then laid up awaiting a buyer or disposal. In September 2006, Estonia signed a contract to acquire the three vessels.

The former HMS Bridport was modernized and overhauled in Bay 1 of the Syncrolift at Rosyth. She was formally handed over to the Estonian Navy in April 2007, and was renamed: EML Ugandi.



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