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HTMS Tachin

History
Thai Navy Ensign
Name: HTMS Tachin
Namesake: Tha Chin River
Builder: Uraga Dock
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
Length: 85 m (279 ft)
Beam: 10.5 m (34 ft)
Draft: 3.7 m (12 ft)
Propulsion: 2 × reciprocating steam engines, 2,500 hp (1,864 kW)
Speed: 17 knots (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Armament:
  • 3 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
  • Light AA guns
  • 2 × torpedo tubes
  • 20 × mines

HTMS Tachin was a Royal Thai Navy sloop and training ship, built by the Uraga Dock Company in Japan. Her sister ship was the HTMS Maeklong.

For a later ship of the same name see HTMS Tachin (PF-1)


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