HTMS Tachin

History


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)

Maeklong-class sloops

Maeklong Tachin

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