Htms Sukhothai News Today

BANGKOK: As a 19-day salvage mission came to a conclusion on Monday (March 11), five crew members of the HTMS Sukhothai remain missing.

BANGKOK: The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) and its US counterpart will on Thursday (Feb 22) start their mission to search and decommission hazardous materials on board the ill-fated HTMS Sukhothai, RTN chief Admiral Adung Phan-iam said on Monday (Feb 19).

Royal Thai Navy (RTN) Commander-in-Chief Admiral Choengchai Chomchoengpaet said on Friday that he would not leave a “mess” for his successor when he retires at the end of this month.

The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) will submit a court request to officially declare the five remaining sailors from HTMS Sukhothai, who are still unaccounted for, as missing persons.

The search for the five crewmen of the sunken HTMS Sukhothai who remain missing is still continuing, navy chief Adm Choengchai Chomchoengpaet said on Wednesday.

The Royal Thai Navy plans to salvage the sunken HTMS Sukhothai using a budget of around 100 million baht as it still searches for the last five missing crew members.

The Royal Thai Navy is continuing with the search by air and sea for the five crew members of the sunken warship HTMS Sukhothai still missing at sea, navy spokesman Adm Pokkrong Monthatpalin said on Sunday.

The body of another crewman from HTMS Sukhothai has been identified as searchers focus on islands off Chumphon province in the hope of finding the five remaining missing sailors almost two weeks after the warship sank in the Gulf of Thailand.

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The Royal Thai Navy has released the first underwater images of HTMS Sukhothai after the warship disappeared beneath 4-metre waves in the Gulf of Thailand 11 days ago.

Two more bodies of missing sailors from the capsized HTMS Sukhothai have been found and retrieved, navy spokesman Adm Pokkrong Monthatpalin said on Tuesday.