HTMS Maeklong information

History
Thailand
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
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)
Armament	4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns; 2 × 20 mm AA guns; 4 × 18 inch torpedo tubes (2 × 2);
Aircraft carried	1 × Floatplane

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.

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.

^ Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 411.
^ Mikesh and Abe 1990, p. 260.

[Conways22_p411-1] Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 411.

[mikesh_p260-2] Mikesh and Abe 1990, p. 260.

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History

Thailand
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)
Armament	4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 2 × 20 mm AA guns 4 × 18 inch torpedo tubes (2 × 2)
Aircraft carried	1 × Floatplane^[2]