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

Maha Chakri 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.