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TAKSIN light cruisers


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ตากสิน [Taksin]     CRDA, Trieste, Italy 23.9.1939 28.5.1942 --- confiscated by Italy 6.8.1942 (Etna)
พระนเรศวรมหาราช [Naresuan]     CRDA, Trieste, Italy 26.8.1939 6.8.1941 --- confiscated by Italy 6.8.1942 (Vesuvio)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

5900

Displacement full, t6533
Length, m

141.0 pp 153.8 oa

Breadth, m

14.5

Draught, m

5.95 mean deep

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armour, mm

belt: 60, deck: 35 - 20, turrets: 20, CT: 60

Armament

3 x 2 - 152/53 OTO 1929, 6 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917?, 4 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 catapult, 2 seaplanes

Military loadtroops, 600 m³ of cargo
Complement

580



Standard scale images


<i>Etna</i>
Etna


Project history

Small cruisers, have received names Taksin and Naresuan were ordered by Thailand in Italy in 1938. Under an original design, they should have 5500t standard displacement, 30kts speed and armament consisted of 3 twin 152mm guns, 6 single 76mm AA guns, 4 twin 13.2mm MGs, 2 triple 533mm TTs and catapults for seaplanes. Interesting feature of these ships was that despite only one funnel, machinery had en echelon arrangement (from a bow aftward there were No1 and 2 boiler rooms, No1 engine room, No3 boiler room and No2 engine room).

The kiel laying of cruisers has happened in the end of 1939, and in December, 1941 works were suspended, 6.8.1942 Italian Government confiscated both ships. Taksin and Naresuan were renamed Etna and Vesuvio respectively. The project was redesigned to AA cruiser. All armaments were replaced by new, thus catapult and TTs were removed. Besides providing of air defence of escorts, on the new ships it was supposed to assign additional functions of fast cargo vessels. For this purpose 400m3 holds were provided.

By September, 1943 the ships were in 60-65% readiness. 10.9.1943 they were captured by Germans at Trieste, and in 1944 scuttled on shallow water in 1944, raised next year and BU in 1948.

Ship protection

Main deck had 35mm thickness between inner longitudinal splinter bulkheads and 20mm between these bulkheads and belt.