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eswube, citizen lambda : thanks. today i have gasoline tanker

HTMS Samui (ex-YPG-60): YOG-5 Class Gasoline Barge
Launched: 1944
Builder: Albina Engine and Machine Works, USA
Commissioned RTN: 20 November 1947
Displacement: 1,235 tons full load
Dimensions: 53.0 x 10.0 x 3.6 m
Propulsion: 1 diesels, 560 bhp
Speed: 8 kts Shaft: 1 shafts
Crew: 63
Range: 2,352 nmi at 6 knot
Radar: 1xKoden Navigation Radar
Cargo: 985 tons
Armament: 2 x Oerlikon 20mm machine guns

Magnificent! more of these obscure little auxillaries

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EXCELLENT work Superboy ... There's something ageless about these small Auxillary's.

Jolly Well done my old fruit

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Wow! It's just great! Keep up the great work!

Nice to see this forgotten auxiliary vessel.

Gollevainen, adenandy, eswube, odysseus1980 : thank you.

today i have American version of the British River class. originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate. Transferred to the Soviet Union, Returned to U.S. and transferred on loan to Thailand


HTMS Tachin (ex-USS Glendale PF-36) and HTMS Prasae (ex-USS Gallup PF-47)







Tacoma class patrol frigates

Displacement: 2,415 long tons full load
Length: 92.8 m
Beam: 11.4 m
Draft: 4.17m
Propulsion: 2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines, 3 boilers, 2 shafts
Speed: 20 knots
Complement: 190

Sensors and processing systems:
1 x SA Air Search Radar
1 x QBF Sonar
1 x Mk 51 Gun Director

Armament:
3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
2 × 40/60 m Bofors guns
9 × 20mm Oerlikon guns
1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
4 to 8 × depth charge projectors
2 × depth charge racks
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HTMS Tachin (PF-1) and HTMS Prasae (PF-2) in 1982

- replace SA air search radar by AN/SPS-10 surface search radar
- replace QBF sonar by AN/SQS-17B hull-mounted sonar
- add 2 x Mk32 Mod 0 324 mm torpedo single tubes
- add 2 x Decca I-band navigation radars










HTMS Tachin reclassified PF-411, decommissioned 22 June 2000 and preserved as a memorial at the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School (pre-cadet school) at Nakonnayok province (about 150 km. north-east of Bangkok)


HTMS Prasae reclassified PF-412, decommissioned 22 June 2000 and preserved as a memorial at Memorial at the mouth of the Prasae river, Rayong province (about 300 km. east of Bangkok)

Fantastic work!!

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Nice to see this forgotten frigate, missing for years from our archive.

Indeed great work.

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New AU project "Aravala"

Hi Superboy!

Excellent!!!

Greetings
GD