Bangpakong 1960
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
บางปะกง [Bangpakong] (ex-Burnet, ex-Gondwana, ex-Burnet) | 4 | Ferguson, Glasgow, UK | 11.1942 | 31.5.1943 | 9.1943 // 15.5.1947 | stricken 1984 | |
ประแส [Prasae] (ex-Betony, ex-Sind, ex-Betony) | Hall, Aberdeen, UK | 9.1942 | 22.4.1943 | 8.1943 // 15.5.1947 | wrecked 13.1.1951 |
Displacement
standard, t 980 - 1000 Displacement
full, t 1350 - 1370 Length, m 57.9 pp 62.5
oa Breadth, m 10.1 Draught, m 4.34 - 4.42
deep load No of shafts 1 Machinery 1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers Power, h. p. 2750 Max speed, kts 16.5 Fuel, t oil 337 Endurance,
nm(kts) 7400(10) Armament 1 x 1 - 102/45
CP Mk I, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk VII, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4
DCT, 2
DCR (72) Electronic equipment type 271 or
type 273 or type 291 radar, type 123 or type 128 or type 144 sonar Complement 109
Project history: Former Indian 'Flower' class corvettes, returned to RN in 1947 and immediately to Royal Thai Navy.
Modernizations: 1960s, Bangpakong: - 1 x 1 - 102/45, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCR; + 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7
Naval service: Since 1970s Bangpakong used as TS. Prasae served in the Korean war, 7.1.1951 she was beached on the East coast of Korea during snowstorm and scuttled after unsuccessful attempts to raise her.
� Ivan Gogin, 2015