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HTMS PIN KLAO (413)

8/3/2017

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HTMS Pin Klao (413) photographed in Hua Hin Thailand on 1 August 2016.

​She was originally built for the US Navy as the USS Hemminger (DE 746) a Cannon Class Escort Destroyer built during World War II. She was launched on 12 September 1943 by the Western Pipe & Steel Company in San Francisco, California and commissioned into the fleet on 30 May 1944.

She reached Pearl Harbour in August 1944 to train submarines, patrol between Pearl and Eniwetok and undertake hunter killer and anti-submarine operations.

​In April 1945 she escorted a resupply convoy to Okinawa and during May and June 1945 she acted as a screen for a carrier group. In September 1945 she was detatched from the Pacific Fleet and undertook training operations out of Green Cove Florida before being put into reserve on 17 June 1946.​Recomissioned on 1 December 1950 she undertook local operations along the US coastline with reserve training visits to Europe and South America.

​She we decommissioned at New York Naval Shipyard on 21 February 1959 and then loaned to the Royal Thai Navy on 22 July 1959. 

​Displacement  is 1,260t and she is 93m long with a 11.23m beam and 3.56m draft.

Propulsion =4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws.

Speed =21 knots and a range of 10,800 nm at 12 kn. 

Complement = 15 officers and 201 enlisted.

Armament was originally
  • 3 × single Mk.22 3"/50 calibre guns 
  • 3 × twin 40mm Mk 1 AA guns
  • 8 × 20mm Mk 4 AA gunss
  • 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 1 × hedgehog Mk 10 anti-submarine mortar
  • 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors
  • 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks
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Pin Klao leads four other Royal Thai Naval Vessels during a training exercise
3 Comments
Bernard L. Morningstar
26/10/2018 06:39:29 pm

I was a seaman apprentice on a two week training cruise aboard the USS Hemminger in November 1956. That was my first experience on a ship at sea. After FT school at Bainbridge in 1957, I served two years on in FOX Division aboard the USS Intrepid. The Intrepid was in dry dock undergoing conversion to Oriskany Class (Hurricane bow, angle deck) when we pulled into Brooklyn Navy Yard. I wonder if this old girl is still around?

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DebonairDylan link
14/3/2022 04:26:08 pm

You might be happy to learn that as of 2022 she is still in service with the Thai Navy.

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S. Kisaragi
9/12/2023 09:11:02 pm

She's still in commission as of Dec 2023 with the 1st Frigate Squadron, but as a cadet training ship, plus regularly performing ceremonial duties such as firing salutes on important occasions on behalf of the entire fleet.

Known as เรือครู ("The Instructor") most of the RTN's leadership today - at least those that were surface officers - probably served on her at some point. The current navy CINC certainly did.

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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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