HTMS Maeklong
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| HTMS Maeklong | |
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| Name: | HTMS Maeklong |
| Ordered: | 1935 |
| Laid down: | 24 July 1936 |
| Launched: | 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 10 June 1937 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 March 1995 |
| Fate: | Museum ship |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Displacement: | 1,400 long tons (1,422 t) |
| Length: | 82 m (269 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 10.36 m (34 ft 0 in) |
| Draft: | 3.14 m (10 ft 4 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × reciprocating steam engines, 2,500 hp (1,864 kW) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (20 mph; 31 km/h) |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 × Floatplane[2] |
HTMS Maeklong (Thai: ร.ล. แม่กลอง) was a Royal Thai Navy escort vessel (classified also as a corvette or sloop) and training ship, built at the Uraga Dock in Yokosuka, Japan.
Her sister ship was the HTMS Tachin.
The Maeklong is preserved in concrete in Chulachomklao Fort in Phra Samut Chedi district, Samut Prakan province, Thailand. The ship is named after a river, the Mae Klong.
File:HTMS Maeklong front.jpg
HTMS Maeklong
References
- Gardiner, Robert and Roger Chesneau. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1980. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Mikesh, Robert C. and Shorzoe Abe. Japanese Aircraft 1910–1941. London: Putnam, 1990. ISBN 0-85177-840-2.
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