HTMS Maeklong
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HTMS Maeklong (Thai: เรือหลวงแม่กลอง) is a retired 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 HTMS Tachin.
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Name | HTMS Maeklong |
Namesake | Mae Klong River |
Ordered | 13 August 1935 |
Builder | Uraga Dock Company, Yokosuka |
Laid down | 24 July 1936 |
Launched | 1936 |
Acquired | 10 June 1937 |
Commissioned | 26 September 1937 |
Decommissioned | 20 July 1996 |
Status | Museum ship |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Mae Klong |
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] |
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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.