HTMS Maeklong

Career
Ordered:	1935
Laid down:	July 24 1936
Launched:	1936
Commissioned:	June 10 1937
Decommissioned:	March 20 1995
Fate:	museal 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:
Depth:
Complement:
Armament:	3 x 120 mm guns; light AA guns 2 x torpedo tubes; 20 mines
Aircraft:	1 floatplane
Motto:

HTMS Maeklong (Thai 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 Tachin.

Meaklong is currently preserved in concrete in Chulachomklao Fort in the province Samut Prakan, Thailand. The ship is named after the Maeklong river.

External links

• HTMS Maeklong Conservation Project