HTMS Phutthayotfa Chulalok
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | April 27, 1972 at Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Launched: | February 3, 1973 |
| Commissioned: | June 1, 1974 |
| Decommissioned: | July 30, 1994 |
| Fate: | Leased to Royal Thai Navy in 1994 and eventually sold December 9, 1999 |
| Struck: | January 11, 1995 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,260 tons |
| Length: | 438 feet (133.5 meters) |
| Beam: | 47 feet (14.4 meters) |
| Draft: | 25 feet (7.6 meters) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbine, 2 1,200 psi boilers; 1 geared turbine, 1 shaft; 35,000 shaft horsepower |
| Speed: | 27 knots |
| Radar: | SPS-40B 2-D air search |
| Sonar: | SQS-26CX bow, SQR-18 towed |
| Complement: | 250 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | SPG-53 gun control, EW: SLQ-32(V)1 passive intercept, 8 ASROC, 4 Harpoon, 4 Torpedo Mk-32 tubes with Torpedo Mk-44 and Torpedo Mk 44, 1 5/54 Gun, 1 20 mm Phalanx CIWS |
| Aircraft: | helicopter deck and hangar |
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HTMS Phutthayotfa Chulalok (FFG 461) (Thai: พุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลก) is the former USS Truett (FF-1095), Knox-class frigate. The ship is named after the first king of the Chakri Dynasty, King Phutthayotfa Chulaok the Great.
The Royal Thai Navy first leased the ship from the US Navy after she was decommissioned on July 30, 1994. The ship was eventually purchased on December 9, 1999.
A Phutthayotfa Chulalok-class frigate, she has a sister ship, the HTMS Phutthaloetla Naphalai (FFG 462).
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