| Career | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Displacement: | 1,400 long tons (1,422 t) |
| Length: | 85 m (279 ft) |
| Beam: | 10.5 m (34 ft) |
| Draft: | 3.7 m (12 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × reciprocating steam engines, 2,500 hp (1,864 kW) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (20 mph; 31 km/h) |
| Armament: | • 3 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns • Light AA guns • 2 × torpedo tubes • 20 × mines |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × Floatplane |
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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