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Ratanakosin class corvettes are a class of two ships that were built for the Royal Thai Navy in the 1980s. Both ships remain in service
HTMS Ratanakosin (441)
HTMS Sukhothai (442)
Royal Thai Navy
HTMS Ratanakosin (441)
HTMS Sukhothai (442)
Type: Corvette
Displacement: 840 tons (normal)
960 tons (full load)
Length: 76.82 m (252 ft 0 in)
Beam: 9.55 m (31 ft 4 in)
Draft: 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in)
Installed power: 16,000 bhp (12,000 kW)
Propulsion: 2× MTU 20V1163 TB83 diesel engines,
2× shafts
Speed: 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range: 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) (at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph))
Complement: 15 officers, 72 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems: 1× Decca 1226 surface search radar
1× HSA ZW-06 surface search radar
1× HSA DA-05 air/surface search radar
1× HSA WM-25 fire control radar
1× HSA LIROD-8 optical fire control system
STN Atlas DSQS-21C hull mounted sonar
Armament:
Missiles
8× RGM-84 Harpoon SSM (2 quad) launchers
1× octuple Albatros SAM launcher (24 Selenia Aspide missiles)
Guns
1× Otobreda 76 mm (3 in) gun
2× Bofors 40 mm ( 1 twin Otobreda mount)
2× 20 mm Oerlikon GAM-B01 cannon
Torpedos
2× Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (Sting Ray torpedos
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Thai military frigates and helicopters kept up the search late Monday (Dec 19) for more than 30 sailors missing after a naval vessel sank, with dozens of others already hauled from the choppy waters.
The HTMS Sukhothai capsized late Sunday as it was patrolling the Gulf of Thailand, about 37 kilometres off the Southeast Asian nation's southeastern coast.
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Reddet efter knap to døgn i vandet
I en kamp mod tiden lykkedes det tirsdag at redde en overlevende fra den thailandske korvette HTMS Sukhothai, der kæntrede og sank i hårdt vejr søndag. Mandag aften lykkedes det at redde en marinesoldat, der klamrede sig til en bøje. Der er ifølge Reuters fortsat 29 savnede.
Hovedparten af korvettens 106 besætningsmedlemmer blev reddet af tililende skibe og helikoptere, da korvetten begyndte at udvikle slagside, efter at der var trængt vand ind i skibet.
Men 32 marinesoldater nåede ikke i sikkerhed. Tre af dem er altså siden reddet fra havet 20 sømil ud for Prachuap Khiri Khan provinsen i Thailand.
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