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The Royal Thai Navy has confirmed that the HTMS Sukhothai, a Ratanakosin-class corvette commissioned in 1987 has sunk, one hour ago.



According to local Thai media, the Prime Minister is monitoring the event and all crew members have been rescued and confirmed safe. The report from The Standard reads below:

“Today (18 December) from Sukhothai Luang Case, the boat had an incidence of tilt due to encountering strong waves, causing some seawater to flow into the electrical system through the exhaust pipe next to the ship, causing the power engine to be off and causing the big machine to stop working, causing the ship not to sink. Control the boat and allows water to get inside the hull to tilt later.

At 11:30 pm Navy reports Sukhothai main ship has sunk under the surface due to high water entering the ship. All of the forces are safe.

While the General Teacher. Prayut Chan-Ocha, Prime Minister and Defense Minister, followed the incident of Luang Sukhothai, which encountered a strong storm in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand, forcing the Navy to rush to help all the troops to safely return to the shore.”

https://theatlasnews.co/breakingnews/20 ... hai-sinks/

What I have started to hear that there is some 31-33 sailors missing and 1 dead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64023249

Side note:
I find how they describe the accident, interesting.

31-33 sailors missing = real, RTN say in afternoon but Prime Minister say in morning ~_^

and 1 dead = RTN say from merchant ship

yesterday 2-3 vessels sunk in Gulf of Thailand

How bad can the weather become in Gulf of Thailand, close to a cyclone? from the sound of it, it's sound like an very "interesting" weather

I ask, since different countries have different ways to explain weather. Like when Norway lost an frigate in 1994 due to engine problem and weather, they described the weather as heavy (it was a storm!).

andaman sea look dangerous, gulf of thailand look have no dangerous, but yesterday was the very bad day

the sunk of htms sukhothai have many questions

why htms kraburi and htms sukhuthai came to chomporn in the storm

why 30 marine corp on the ship have no life jacket

why electrical systems failed after the attack of 2 heavy waves