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Pin Clao 1977

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
ปิ่นเกล้า [Pin Clao] (ex-Hemminger)	3, 1991- 413		Western Pipe & Steel, San Pedro, USA	8.5.1943	12.9.1943	30.5.1944 // 7.1959	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1253
Displacement full, t	1602
Length, m	91.4 wl 93.3 oa
Breadth, m	11.2
Draught, m	3.20 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 General Motors diesel-generators, 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	6000
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	diesel oil 320
Endurance, nm(kts)	11500 (11)
Armament	3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (120)
Electronic equipment	SC-2, SPS-5, Mk 26, Mk 34 radars, SQS-11 sonar
Complement	186

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Project history

Former USN Cannon class destroyer escort, transferred under MDAP.

Modernizations

1966: - 6 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 3 - 324 TT, WLR-1 ECM suite

1991: - SC-2, SPS-5, Mk 26, Mk 34 radars; + SPS-6C, 2x SPS-21 radas

Naval service

Pin Clao serves as TS since 1991.