NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive
Courtesy of Al Grazevich
Conquest (MSO 488)
ex-AM-488
November - Tango - Alpha - Whiskey
Conquest served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China
Specifications:
| Click on thumbnail for full size image |
Size | Image Description | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conquest (MSO 488) |
||||
 |
49k | 28 June 1955 Running acceptance trials |
J. L. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. | |
 |
35k | |||
| USS Conquest (MSO 488) |
||||
 |
180k | . | 102 Minesweeper Website Dick Lewis |
|
 |
102k | . | Tom Lawson | |
 |
105k | Color version of above photo Photo by LT George Ross, USN |
||
 |
54k | . | B. C. Young | |
 |
76k | U.S. Navy photo. | David Buell | |
 |
617k | Ocean minesweepers of Mine Division 73 steam together in Pacific. Top to Bottom: Illusive (MSO 448), Conquest, Esteem (MSO 438), Gallant (MSO 489) 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 | |
 |
98k | Ed Zajkowski | ||
 |
186k | Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret. | ||
 |
282k | Overhead port view of Conquest underway c. 1959 National Archives photo USN 1046396 |
Mike Green | |
 |
288k | 8 August 1960 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Photo by Walter E. Frost from City of Vancouver Archives |
Michael Mohl | |
 |
302k | c. February/March 1973 Carrying a diesel fuel bladder in transit to WestPac to increase her range |
Michael Cosgrove | |
 |
130k | c. 1978 Pier 90, Seattle, WA USS Esteem (MSO 438), Conquest, USS Implicit (MSO 455), USS Higbee (DD 806), USS McKean (DD 784) and inboard of the DD's is USS Hector (AR 7) |
Dave Hood, GMT2 | |
 |
153k | Cover of the May 1983 edition of Sea Classics magazine | Tommy Trampp | |
 |
391k | 1 April 1988 A crewman monitors a mine detection and classification console in the Persian Gulf U.S. Navy photo DN-ST-89-03190 by PH2 Mike Harnar, USN |
Bill Gonyo | |
 |
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 | |
 |
52k | c. Winter 1989. Enhance (MSO 437) and Conquest at Basrac Shipyard, Bahrain |
||
 |
78k | c. November 1989. Esteem (MSO 438), Enhance (MSO 437) and Conquest in the Arabian Gulf |
||
 |
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. |
||
 |
63k | |||
 |
375k | 6 May 1991 Columbia River Photo by Rick Garcia |
Chris Howell | |
 |
42k | Entering Seattle in the summer of 1992. Photo taken from the USS Cape Cod (AD 43). | Lee Noland, STGC(SW), USN, Ret. | |
| Yung Tzu (MSO 1307) |
||||
 |
44k | . | Chinese Navy | |
 |
61k | Yung Ku (MSO 1308), ex-Gallant (MSO 489) and Yung Tzu | ||
 |
33k | c. 1997 Yung Tzu and Yung Ku |
||
 |
121k | May 2007 Keelung, Taiwan |
Perry Huang | |
 |
161k | |||
 |
140k | |||
 |
126k | |||
 |
118k | |||
 |
118k | |||
 |
127k | |||
 |
150k | May 2007 Keelung, Taiwan Her original name, "Conquest" can still be seen on Yung Tzu's stern |
||
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LT Elbert Leon Davis, USN | 20 July 1955 - 1 December 1956 |
| 02 | LT/LCDR Stansfield Turner, USN - USNA Class of 1947 Awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, three Legions of Merit, the Bronze Star with Combat V, the Joint Services Commendation Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V - Retired as Admiral Director of Central Intelligence Agency 9 March 1977 - 20 January 1981 | 1 December 1956 - 24 June 1958 |
| 03 | LT/LCDR Russell Franklin Wilson, USN - USNA Class of 1949 | 24 June 1958 - 5 July 1960 |
| 04 | LCDR Carl Jack Costanzo, USN | 5 July 1960 - 11 July 1962 |
| 05 | CDR James Joseph "Jim" Strohm, USN - USNA Class of 1951 | 11 July 1962 - 4 December 1964 |
| 06 | LT/LCDR Donald Martin, USN - USNA Class of 1955 | 4 December 1964 - 2 June 1966 |
| 07 | LT/LCDR Wayne Milton Holmes, USN | 2 June 1966 - 26 April 1968 |
| 08 | LCDR William Henry Kersting, USN | 26 April 1968 - 5 November 1969 |
| 09 | LT/LCDR Arthur Earl Rowe, Jr., USN | 5 November 1969 - 30 October 1970 (Decommissioned) |
| 10 | LCDR Denis Nickolas Tsukalas, USN | 21 October 1971 (Recommissioned) - 12 December 1972 |
| 11 | LCDR John Richard Heufelder, USN | 12 December 1972 - 19 May 1974 |
| 12 | LCDR Douglas Earl Ward, USN | 19 May 1974 - June 1976 |
| 13 | LCDR David James Klick, USN | June 1976 - 11 August 1978 |
| 14 | CDR Paul Albert Thorsen, USN - USNA Class of 1965 | 11 August 1978 - April 1981 |
| 15 | CDR Charles Lawrence Stout, Jr., USN | April 1981 - April 1982 |
| 16 | CDR James Robert "Jimmie" Jackson, USN | April 1982 - December 1984 |
| 17 | CDR Le Roy Windsor Chapple, USN | December 1984 - 7 March 1987 |
| 18 | CDR James Edgar Keys, Jr., USN | 7 March 1987 - December 1987 |
| 19 | CDR Charles George Belcher, USN | December 1987 - April 1988 |
| 20 | LCDR Theodore Lawrence Kaye, USN - USNA Class of 1972 | 25 April 1988 - 23 August 1988 |
| 21 | CDR Steven Paul Johnson, USN | 23 August 1988 - February 1989 |
| 22 | CDR Duncan K. Forbes, USN | February 1989 - July 1989 |
| 23 | CDR Steven William Nerheim, USN | 1989 |
| 24 | CDR Paul Eugene Stanton, USN | March 1990 - 13 July 1990 |
| 25 | LCDR Nelson Marzan Cayabyab, USN - USNA Class of 1978 | 13 July 1990 - 4 February 1992 |
| 26 | LCDR Phillip Tim Swanson, USN | 4 February 1992 - 9 October 1992 |
| 27 | LCDR Timothy James Howington, USN | 9 October 1992 - 29 June 1994 |
|
|
| Back to the Main Photo Index | Back to the Mine Warfare Ship Photo Index | Back to the Ocean Minesweeper (MSO) Photo Index |
| Comments, Suggestions, E-mail Webmaster |
|
This page was created by Gary P. Priolo & maintained by Joseph M. Radigan (of blessed memory) & David Wright All Pages © 1996 - 2023, NavSource History, All rights reserved. |
