[Luuraja]

The story of collecting money for two modern in these times subs is interesting too.
Partly it was collected by people, both money and scrap iron were collected. Admiral Johann Pitka, very charizmatic person and head of Estonian Navy, started campaign in 1933. Later, in 1944 he died as hero trying to organize restoration of Estonian Republic and hopeless defence against Red Army.
About half million Estonian chrones were collected.
It was'nt enough. Estonian Navy had two russian 'Novik' class destroyers, which were captured in 1919 from bolshewik's with help of Royal Navy. Both were sold to Peru for 2,5 million dollars (equal 410 000 dollars in these times).
Then government finally woke up and invested 6,7 million chrones...