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BANGKOK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Thailand's subject deployed warships and helicopters connected Monday to effort to find 33 marines missing aft a corvette sank overnight successful choppy waters successful the Gulf of Thailand, the navy said.
Three navy vessels and 2 helicopters were sent to find the missing disconnected Prachuap Khiri Khan province, southbound of Bangkok, aft the HTMS Sukhothai warship suffered an motor malfunction and went down conscionable earlier midnight astir 20 nautical miles disconnected the coast.
An overnight rescue ngo successful atrocious upwind secured 73 of the 106 radical aboard, the navy said, with the remaining 33 forced to wantonness ship.
The navy posted images and video footage connected its Twitter relationship showing a radical of unit successful orangish vests successful a achromatic inflatable raft moving distant from a vessel successful acheronian arsenic waves swelled astir it. It was not instantly wide however galore rafts had been deployed.
The Sukhothai, a U.S.-built corvette successful usage since 1987, was deed by beardown waves connected Sunday, forcing it to tilt to 1 broadside earlier becoming flooded with seawater, navy spokesperson Admiral Pogkrong Monthardpalin said.
A representation shared by the navy showed the grey vas flipped implicit onto its side, portion different representation connected a scanner surface showed the bow of the vessel and a weapon turret poking retired supra the waterline arsenic it went down.
Reporting by Juarawee Kittisilpa, Panu Wongcha-um and Napat Wesshasartar; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell
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