MuseumShips Scuttlebutt • Thai HTMS Maeklong

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Thai HTMS Maeklong

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:36 am

by Pim vW

Learned about this museum ship yesterday.

All I can find about it on wikipedia:

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.

Re: Thai HTMS Maeklong

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:43 am

by Ayanamikun

A Japanese made pre 1945 destroyer still exist? Now thats impressive!!
Edit: Ok perhaps not a destroyer, but still an important survivor

Re: Thai HTMS Maeklong

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:40 am

by Ryan Szimanski

Yea I was thinking the same thing, there are so few Imperial Japanese built ships left.

Re: Thai HTMS Maeklong

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:19 am

by Pim vW

Maeklong (indeed not classified as a destroyer) on Google Maps