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Conquest (MSO 488)
ex-AM-488



Call sign:
November - Tango - Alpha - Whiskey


Conquest served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 26 March 1953 as AM-488 by the J. L. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Wash; Launched, 20 May 1954; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-488, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Conquest (MSO-488), 20 July 1955; Decommissioned, 29 June 1994; Struck from the Navy Register 29 June 1994; Sold to Taiwan as Yung Tzu (MSO 1307), 1 March 1995 through the Security Assistance Program for $742,779.

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 8 Officers, 70 Enlisted; Armament, as built, one single 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal machine guns, final configuration, bow gun replaced by one twin 20mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns remain; Propulsion, four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, replaced by four Waukasha Motors Co. diesels, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.

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USS Conquest (MSO 488)
Conquest 180k . 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Conquest 102k . Tom Lawson
Conquest 105k Color version of above photo
Photo by LT George Ross, USN		 Tom Lawson
Conquest 54k - B. C. Young
Conquest 76k U.S. Navy photo- David Buell
MINDIV 72 617k Ocean minesweepers of Mine Division 73 steam together in Pacific. Top to Bottom: Illusive (MSO 448), Conquest, Esteem (MSO 438), Gallant (MSO 489) and Pledge (MSO 492). The sweepers are working out of their home port at Long Beach, CA.
U.S. Navy photo from the August 1965 edition of All Hands magazine.		 Joe Radigan
Esteem 130k c. 1978
Pier 90, Seattle, WA
USS Esteem (MSO 438), Conquest, USS Implicit (MSO 455), USS Higbee (DD 806), USS Mckean (DD 784) and inboard of the DD's is USS Hector (AR 7).		 Dave Hood GMT2
Esteem 102k c. fall 1989.
Esteem (MSO 438), Conquest and Enhance (MSO 437) inport at Basrac Shipyard, Bahrain towards the end of Operation Earnest Will.		 Tom Womble,
LCDR, USNR
Enhance 52k c. Winter 1989.
Enhance (MSO 437) and Conquest at Basrac Shipyard, Bahrain		 Tom Womble,
LCDR, USNR
MSO-437/438/488 78k c. November 1989.
Esteem (MSO 438), Enhance (MSO 437) and Conquest in the Arabian Gulf		 Tom Womble,
LCDR, USNR
MSO-437/438/488 75k c. April 1990.
Esteem, Enhance and Conquest return to Seattle aboard the Super Servant 3 from the Arabian gulf. This apparently was the first multiship lift for the Navy.		 Tom Womble,
LCDR, USNR
MSO-437/438/488 63k c. April 1990.
Esteem, Enhance and Conquest return to Seattle aboard the Super Servant 3 from the Arabian gulf.		 Tom Womble,
LCDR, USNR
Conquest 42k Entering Seattle in the summer of 1992. Photo taken from the USS Cape Cod (AD 43). Lee Noland, STGC(SW), USN, Ret.
Yung Tzu (MSO 1307)
Yung Tzu 44k Yung Tzu Chinese Navy
M-1307/M-1308 61k Yung Ku (MSO 1308), ex-Gallant (MSO 489) and Yung Tzu Chinese Navy
M-1307/M-1308 33k c. 1997
Yung Tzu and Yung Ku		 Chinese Navy
Conquest 121k May 2007
Keelung, Taiwan		 Perry Huang
Conquest 161k May 2007
Keelung, Taiwan		 Perry Huang
Conquest 140k May 2007
Keelung, Taiwan		 Perry Huang
Conquest 126k May 2007
Keelung, Taiwan		 Perry Huang
Conquest 118k May 2007
Keelung, Taiwan		 Perry Huang
Conquest 118k May 2007
Keelung, Taiwan		 Perry Huang
Conquest 127k May 2007
Keelung, Taiwan		 Perry Huang
Conquest 150k May 2007
Keelung, Taiwan
Her original name, "Conquest" can still be seen on Yung Tzu's stern.
 Perry Huang
View the Conquest (MSO-488)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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