HTMS Bangpakong(I) and HTMS Prasae (I) : Modified Flower Class Corvette
HMS Betony
Pennant: K 274
Built by: Alexander Hall & Co. Ltd. (Aberdeen Scotland)
Launched: 22 Apr, 1943
End service: 24 Aug, 1945
History:
Loaned to the Royal Indian Navy as HMIS Sind on 24 August 1945.
Returned to the Royal Navy on 17 May 1946.
Sold to the Thai Navy in 1947 and renamed Prasae
Specifications:
Class and type: Flower-class corvette (modified)
Displacement: 1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons)
Length: 208 ft (63.40 m)o/a
Beam: 33 ft (10.06 m)
Draught: 11 ft (3.35 m)
Propulsion: Single shaft, 2×oil fired water tube boilers, 1 triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (29.6 km/h)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement: 90
Sensors and processing systems:
1xType 271 SW2C radar
1xType 144 sonar (Retractable)
Armament:
1x4 inch BL Mk.IX single gun
3x 20mm Oerlikon single guns
1xHedgehog ASW mortar
4xMK.II depth charge throwers
2xdepth charge rails with 70 depth charges.
HMS Betony 1943
HTMS Prasae served in the Korean War (1950)
1x4 inch BL Mk.IX single gun
7x20mm Oerlikon single guns
1xHedgehog ASW mortar
2xMK.II depth charge throwers+reload
1xdepth charge rails
HTMS Prasae was beached during a snowstorm on the Korean east coast on 7 January 1951. After attempts to pull her off the beach had failed she was scuttled 13 January 1951.