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AM / MSO-492 Pledge

Call sign: November - Oscar - Bravo - Foxtrot

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

Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 24 June 1954 as AM-492 by the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Wash; Redesignated as an Ocean Minesweeper MSO-492, 7 February 1955; Launched, 20 July 1955; Commissioned USS Pledge (MSO-492), 20 April 1956; Decommissioned, 31 January 1994; Struck from the Naval Register, 31 January 1994; Sold to Taiwan, under the Security Assistance Program, 9 September 1994; Renamed Yung Te (M 1309). Fate unknown.

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

Size	Image Description	Source
92k	-	Naval Minewarfare Association
97k	-	USS Pledge Web Site Don Shelton
52k	-	USS Pledge Web Site Don Shelton and P. M. Leenhauts

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
USS Pledge (MSO-492)
102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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