Thoon Kramom (1866 ship)

It was built in 1866 in Bangkok, and was used as a trading vessel, counting among its captains the future Danish shipping magnate Hans Niels Andersen, who sailed it to England in 1883 with a cargo of teak.

[4] By the 1870s, the Thoon Kramom was owned by the royal government of King Chulalongkorn, and was among some fifty vessels that comprised Siam's merchant fleet at the time.

[7] Thoon Kramom rounded the Cape of Good Hope and docked in Falmouth before continuing to Liverpool, where its cargo was sold for a profit of almost 100 percent.

[9] In his 1898 memoir, H. Warington Smyth wrote of the Thoon Kramom,[11] The training barque which takes the youngsters away in the gulf some months every year is the most refreshing sight in the country, and the cleanest, smartest, and most efficient thing the Government can boast of.

It shows what can be done with Siamese properly trained.Thoon Kramom was one of the Thai naval vessels that engaged with the two French warships forcing their way up the Chao Phraya in the 1893 Pak Nam Incident.

[c] It became wrecked in the Chao Phraya in Bangkok prior to 1908, when the reference book Twentieth Century Impressions of Siam noted that its shell "may now be seen rotting at low water outside the palace of the late Prince Mahisra".