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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

Gallant (MSO 489)
ex-AM-489

Call sign:
November - Echo - Whiskey - Kilo

Gallant served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down as AM-489, 21 May 1953 at J. L. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Wash; Launched, 4 June 1954; Redesignated an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-489, 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Gallant (MSO-489), 14 September 1955; Decommissioned, 29 April 1994 and struck from the Navy Register; Sold to Taiwan 8 September 1994 under the Security Assistance Program as Yung Ku (M 1308). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 775 t; Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 12'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 78; 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.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Gallant (MSO 489)
	78k	-	102 Minesweeper Web Site Dick Lewis
	141k	.	Chet Morris, Portland, ME
	681k	U.S. Navy photo	David Buell
	617k	Ocean minesweepers of Mine Division 73 steam together in Pacific. Top to Bottom: Illusive (MSO 448), Conquest (MSO 488), Esteem (MSO 438), Gallant 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
	250k	c. July 1980 Naval Air Station Alameda, CA	Robert M. Cieri
	146k	c. July 1980 Naval Air Station Alameda, CA Moored astern of Excel (MSO 439)	Robert M. Cieri
	63k	U.S. Navy photo from the March 1984 edition of All Hands magazine	Joe Radigan
	416k	Decommissioning article from the 29 April 1994 Volume 53, Number 10 edition of "The Masthead," newspaper Naval Station Treasure Island, CA	Robert M. Cieri
	391k	Decommissioning article from the 29 April 1994 Volume 53, Number 10 edition of "The Masthead," newspaper Naval Station Treasure Island, CA	Robert M. Cieri
Yung Ku (M 1308)
	61k	Yung Ku (M 1308), and Yung Tzu (M 1307), ex-Conquest (MSO 488).	Chinese Navy
	33k	c. 1997 Yung Tzu (M 1307) and Yung Ku (M 1308).	Chinese Navy