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MAHA CHAKRI protected cruiser (1893)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
มหาจักรี [Maha Chakri]     Leith, UK   27.6.1892 1893 stricken 6.1916


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2500

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

88.4

Breadth, m

12.0

Draught, m

4.19

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 5 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

coal 280

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armour, mm

steel; deck: 51

Armament

4 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong T, 10 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss

Complement

318



Standard scale images


<i>Maha Chakri </i>1893
Maha Chakri 1893


Project history

A steel-hulled protected cruiser with a ram bow, two masts and two funnels. The 120mm guns were in upper deck sponsons amidships.

Ship protection

There was 51mm protective deck.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Completed in 1893, she was fitted out as the Royal Yacht but was classified as a protected cruiser. Her engines and fittings were taken out when she was scrapped and reused in a ship of the same name built by Kawasaki in 1918.