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AM / MSO-488 Conquest



Call sign: November - Tango - Alpha - Whiskey



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

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down as Conquest (AM-488), 26 March 1953 at 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 Naval Register, 29 June 1994; Sold to Taiwan, 1 March 1995 through the Security Assistance Program for $742,779; Renamed Yung
Tzu (M 1307)
.

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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Conquest 180k - 102 Minesweeper
Web Site
Dick Lewis
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
Yung Tzu 44k Yung Tzu (M 1307) Chinese Navy
M-1307/M-1308 61k Yung Ku (M 1308), ex-Gallant (MSO 489) and Yung Tzu (M 1307) Chinese Navy
M-1307/M-1308 33k Yung Tzu (M 1307) and Yung Ku (M 1308). c. 1997. Chinese Navy

View the Conquest (MSO-488)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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