NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive
Contributed by Mike Smolinski
Gallant (MSO 489)
ex-AM-489
November - Echo - Whiskey - Kilo
Gallant served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
Specifications:
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| Gallant (AM 489) |
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37k | 4 June 1954 Launching. In the background is Firm (AM 444) |
J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. | |
| USS Gallant (MSO 489) |
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78k | - | 102 Minesweeper Web Site Dick Lewis |
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141k | . | Chet Morris, Portland, ME | |
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681k | U.S. Navy photo | David Buell | |
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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 | |
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321k | 27 March 1971 Steaming in company with Pluck (MSO 464) and an unidentified MSO U.S. Navy photo VBP-02491-3-71 by PH2(AC) J. B. Land |
Charles Lamm | |
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250k | c. July 1980 Naval Air Station Alameda, CA Moored astern of Excel (MSO 439) (Bottom photo) |
Robert M. Cieri | |
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63k | U.S. Navy photo from the March 1984 edition of All Hands magazine | Joe Radigan | |
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335k | c. 1987 Off Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Photo by Rick Garcia |
Chris Howell | |
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405k | 6 June 1990 Off Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Photo by Rick Garcia |
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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 | |
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| Yung Ku (M 1308) |
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61k | Yung Ku (M 1308), and Yung Tzu (M 1307), ex-Conquest (MSO 488). | Chinese Navy | |
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33k | c. 1997 Yung Tzu (M 1307) and Yung Ku (M 1308). |
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| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LT Dixon Lademan, USN | 14 September 1955 - 21 December 1956 |
| 02 | LT James Harold Fluhart, USN | 21 December 1956 - 4 August 1958 |
| 03 | LCDR Lawrence Jeremiah Fay, USN | 4 August 1958 - 1960 |
| 04 | LCDR Leroy Ripley Broun, USN | 1960 - 17 November 1962 |
| 05 | LT Gilbert Edward Schmidt, USN | 17 November 1962 - 1964 |
| 06 | CDR Charles Edward Delaney, USN | 1964 - July 1965 |
| 07 | LCDR Richard Glenn Murphy, USN | July 1965 - 25 May 1966 |
| 08 | LCDR Ronald William Kerslake, USN | 25 May 1966 - 25 July 1968 |
| 09 | LCDR Robert Louis Freehill, USN | 25 July 1968 - 21 August 1970 |
| 10 | LCDR Jerry Scott Jones, USN | 21 August 1970 - 14 August 1972 |
| 11 | LCDR Ralph Edward (Ed) Zunich, USN | 14 August 1972 - 9 December 1973 |
| 12 | LCDR Walter Browne Woodson, III, USN | 9 December 1973 - 14 December 1975 |
| 13 | LT Karl Arthur Mahumed, USN | 14 December 1975 - 21 October 1977 |
| 14 | LCDR Gary Lanar Bier, USN | 21 October 1977 - 19 November 1979 |
| 15 | LCDR Larry Virgil Herrman, USN | 19 November 1979 - 24 April 1982 |
| 16 | LCDR Thomas Wayne Coward, USN | 24 April 1982 - 11 August 1984 |
| 17 | CDR Michael Patrick Bahnmiller, USN | 11 August 1984 - 24 May 1986 |
| 18 | LCDR Gregory R. Ostrowski, USN | 24 May 1986 - 5 April 1988 |
| 19 | LCDR Steven Paul Johnson, USN | 5 April 1988 - 1 August 1988 |
| 20 | LCDR James Edgar Keys, Jr., USN | 1 August 1988 - 6 October 1988 |
| 21 | LT Steven A. McLaughlin, USN | 6 October 1988 - 9 January 1989 |
| 22 | LCDR Steven Paul Johnson, USN | 9 January 1989 - 7 October 1989 |
| 23 | LT Martin Bradley Bodzin, USN | 7 October 1989 - 9 November 1989 |
| 24 | CDR Michael Stewart O'Bryan, USN - Retired as RADM | 9 November 1989 - 18 January 1991 |
| 25 | CDR Jan Maarten Van Tol, USN | 18 January 1991 - May 1993 |
| 26 | LCDR Robin Alexander Linn, USN | May 1993 - 29 April 1994 |
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