A variety of antiques are displayed at the Naval Museum, from the remains of one of the country’s first submarines and z This decommissioned Grumman HU-16 Albatross seaplane is one of the outdoor exhibits at the Naval Museum, which is literally a stone’s throw from the Rongrian Nai Rua Station, named after the Royal Thai Navy Academy on the other side of the station.The museum is open every day, except public holidays. Admission is free.A long-awaited opening torpedoes to diving gear, maritime tools and many more. The submarine, which seems to emerge from the ground in front of the museum, was one of the four the Kingdom ordered from Japan. They arrived in Siam in 1938, a year before the country was renamed as Thailand. During the 1940-1941 military conflict between Thailand and France over parts of Indochina, which were formerly under Thai rule, the submarines weresent on patrol near Ream Naval Base of French Indochina. On the ground floor of the back building, you will find the lamp of Siam’s first lighthouse, which was built near the mouth of the Chao Phraya River in 1871 under the order of Somdet Chao Phraya Borom MahaSri Suriwongse (Chuang Bunnag) who acted as the regent during theearly years of King Rama V’s reign. Imported from England, the lamp wasdesigned to magnify the light so that seafarers could spot it from afar.