HTMS Maeklong

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Career Royal Thai Navy Ensign
Ordered: 1935
Laid down: July 24, 1936
Launched: 1936
Commissioned: June 10, 1937
Decommissioned: March 20, 1995
Fate: museum ship
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 1,400 tons
Length: 85 m
Beam: 10.5 m
Draft: 3.7 m
Propulsion: 2 reciprocating steam engines of 2,500 horsepower (1860 kW)
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h)
Range:
Complement:
Armament:
  • 3 x 120 mm guns;
  • light AA guns
  • 2 x torpedo tubes;
  • 20 mines
Aircraft: 1 floatplane
Motto:

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.

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HTMS Maeklong
HTMS Maeklong

Coordinates: 13°32′19″N, 100°35′3″E