BANGKOK: Two dozen people are still missing after a Thai warship sank in the Gulf of Thailand over the weekend, but rescuers have found one survivor and recovered five bodies. Navy officials gave this information on Tuesday. According to officials, there were not enough life jackets for all the people on board.

With 105 people on board, the corvette HTMS Sukhothai, which had been in service for 35 years, sank in rough waters on Sunday night. According to the Navy, a sailor failed to board the ship, so the earlier count of 106 people on board was incorrect.

At a news conference in Bangkok on Tuesday, Navy Commander Admiral Chernangchai Chomcherangpat initially said two people had been rescued, but later clarified that he had received updated information indicating that only one person was alive. Five more bodies were found. According to those figures, 76 people have been rescued so far, five have been found dead, and 24 are still missing.

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According to Navy Chief of Staff Adm Chonalathis Navanugraha, bodies and survivors were discovered along with some debris some 60 kilometers (37 mi) from the site of the ship's sinking. He claimed that Malaysia, Malaysia and the United States had all offered to assist in the search.

According to Chonalathis, at around 3 am, the survivor – named Channayu Kansaria – was found floating in the water and rescued by a passing cargo ship. He was being taken back to land by a Navy frigate.

According to Vice Admiral Pichai Lorchusakul, Commander of the First Naval Area Command, Chanyu was in a critical condition and would receive medical attention on the frigate, which has facilities like a mobile hospital.

According to a report in the Thai Rath newspaper, he said the missing could not be expected to survive for more than two days.

Chonalthis was a little too excited. He declared, "We still have hope." The wind is blowing towards the beach, depending on the water and wind direction. It is fortunate. We continue our search in good faith.

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The Air Force has contributed one aircraft and one helicopter, while the Navy has deployed four large ships, two maritime patrol aircraft, two helicopters and a drone. Navy officials claimed that smaller boats could not be used as the sea was still too rough.

According to the captain of one of the rescue vessels, Captain Krapich Koravi-Papervit, the search is slowly moving south to account for the currents.

On Sunday evening, the ship's electrical system was destroyed when seawater entered the ship due to strong winds and high waves, making the ship nearly impossible to control.

Other navy ships watched the scene, about 20 miles (32 km) offshore, to try to help the stranded ship, but they were limited by rough seas. More water entered the ship as it was impossible to control, causing it to list and sink.

Hours before the accident, the Thailand Meteorological Department issued a weather advisory for the general area, saying that waves in the Gulf of Thailand were predicted to be between 2 and 4 m (7 to 14 ft). Was. All vessels were advised to "proceed with caution" and smaller vessels were warned not to proceed.

The ship was carrying guests in addition to its regular crew, which the Navy's website claimed to be 87 sailors and officers, according to survivors interviewed by Thai television, who claimed there were insufficient life jackets.

According to Navy Commander Cherangchai, there were not enough life jackets as the ship was carrying about 30 members of the Marine Corps and the Air and Coastal Defense Command. He claimed that 18 people without life jackets were rescued.

According to Cherangchai, all aspects of drowning and distribution of life jackets will be looked into.

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A woman claiming to be the mother of one of the missing sailors confronted Vice Admiral Pichai at one of the rescue centers on Tuesday.

"When the ship started sinking, my son called me from his friend's phone," the woman said in a conversation caught on camera. "They claimed they only found a lifebuoy, not a life jacket. My heart broke as a parent when I heard this. How much hope can you give me if there weren't enough life jackets?"