THE navy’s committee on salvaging HTMS 442 Sukhothai corvette that sank in the Gulf of Thailand on Dec. 18 is now choosing a company to urgently raise and return the warship to service with the estimated budget of 100 million baht, Naewna newspaper said this evening (Jan. 11). The committee, chaired Adm. Adung Phan-iam,
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Navy continues searching for last 5 missing sailors
THE NAVY continued searching for the last five sailors missing in the sinking of HTMS 442 Sukhothai corvette in the Gulf of Thailand on Dec. 18 even though today is New Year’s Day with the SEALs special operation force too deployed, Sanook.com said. Vice Adm. Pichai Lorchusakul, commander of First Naval Area, said the
Read moreBig hunt for 30 crewmembers of sunk warship continues
A BIG SEARCH CONTINUES for 30 crewmembers of HTMS 442 Sukhothai that sank after being pounded by four-metre high waves with the strong wind and waves having initially hindered reaching the spot where the Thai navy’s corvette had sunk, Amarin TV said today (Dec. 20). The navy’s spokesman Adm. Kruang Monthatphlin said just when
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