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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.


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USS Gallant (MSO 489)
Gallant 78k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
Gallant 141k . Chet Morris, Portland, ME
Gallant 681k 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 (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
Gallant 250k c. July 1980
Naval Air Station Alameda, CA
Robert M. Cieri
Excel 146k c. July 1980
Naval Air Station Alameda, CA
Moored astern of Excel (MSO 439)
Robert M. Cieri
Gallant 63k U.S. Navy photo from the March 1984 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Gallant 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
Gallant 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)
M-1307/M-1308 61k Yung Ku (M 1308), and Yung Tzu (M 1307), ex-Conquest (MSO 488). Chinese Navy
M-1307/M-1308 33k c. 1997
Yung Tzu (M 1307) and Yung Ku (M 1308).
Chinese Navy

View the Gallant (MSO-489)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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