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Tachin 1937

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
ท่าจีน [Tachin]			Uraga, Yokosuka, Japan	1936	24.7.1936	6.1937	damaged 1.6.1945, BU
แม่กลอง [Meklong]	1992- 414		Uraga, Yokosuka, Japan	1936	27.11.1936	6.1937	TS 1976, stricken 3.1995

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1400
Displacement full, t	2000
Length, m	82.0
Breadth, m	10.4
Draught, m	3.14
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	2500
Max speed, kts	17
Fuel, t	oil 487
Endurance, nm(kts)	8000(12)
Armament	4 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1939, 2 x 2 - 7.7/87, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 1 seaplane (Watanabe WS-103), mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	155 (inc. cadets)

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Project history

Ordered under the 1935 programme as multipurpose ships, capable to be used in a wartime as gunboats and escorts, and in peace time for cadets training and "showing the flag". They were designed and built in Japan, that found reflexion in characteristic appearance. Building of 2 more ships was planned, but order was never given out.

Modernizations

early 1950s, Meklong: - seaplane, minesweeping gear; + 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

1965, Meklong: - 2 x 2 - 450 TT

1974, Meklong: - 4 x 1 - 120/45, 2 x 1 - 20/65; + 4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, radars

Naval service

Tachin was hard damaged in result of air bomb hit during raid of British B-24 bombers at Sattahip 1.6.1945; she was never repaired and BU right after war; Maeklong was repeatedly modernized and served as TS till 20.3.1995, now she is stored as a museum ashore in Samutprakan.