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MSO-489 Gallant


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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 (MSO-489), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Gallant (MSO-489), 14 September 1955; Decommissioned, 29 April 1994; Struck from the Naval Register, 29 April 1994; Sold to Taiwan, 8 September 1994, under the Security Assistance Program, renamed Yung Ku (M 1308). Fate unknown.

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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Gallant 78k - 102 Minesweeper
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Dick Lewis
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 Yung Tzu (M 1307) and Yung Ku (M 1308). c. 1997. Chinese Navy

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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