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| History | |
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 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) |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × Floatplane[2] |
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.