HMS Bridport (M105)

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:	2 shafts Voith-Schneider propulsors diesel-electric drive Paxman Valenta diesels, 1,500 shp
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.