USS Gallant ( MSO - 489 ) USS " Gallant " ( MSO - 489 ) , an , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named " Gallant " . The ship served in the US Navy from 1954 until 1994 , when it was sold to Taiwan under the Security Assistance Program and renamed to " Yung Ku " ( M 1308 ) . The second " Gallant " ( AM - 489 ) was laid down on 21 May 1953 by J . M . Martinac Shipbuilding Corp . , Tacoma , Washington ; launched on 4 June 1954 ; sponsored by Mrs . Walter Meserole ; reclassified ( MSO - 489 ) on 7 February 1955 ; and commissioned as " Gallant " ( MSO - 489 ) at Tacoma on 14 September 1955 , Lieutenant Dixon Lademan in command . Service history . 1955 – 1960 . After shakedown , " Gallant " based from Long Beach , California , as a unit of Mine Division 96 , Mine Force , U . S . Pacific Fleet . Her readiness exercises ranged as far south as Acapulco , Mexico . She rescued two crew members of a Navy plane downed off Santa Catalina Island and joined Mine Division 73 in January 1957 for concentrated training preparatory to a six - month tour with the 7th Fleet ; ( March – August 1957 ) . This duty found her in Korean waters for combined operations with the Republic of Korea Navy , followed by similar service off Formosa with units of the Chinese Nationalist Navy . Other training took her to ports of Japan and Hong Kong before her return to Long Beach on 20 August 1957 . After a yard overhaul at San Diego , she took part in amphibious landing exercises along the California coast followed by combined mine sweeping operations ; with Canadian Mine Squadron 2 off the coast of Vancouver , British Columbia , in October 1958 . Another overhaul period was completed by April 1959 when she began refresher training and mine countermeasures exercises that won her the Battle Efficiency Competition Award " E " and the Minesweeping " M " as the outstanding minesweeper of the Pacific Mine Force during Fiscal 1959 . 1960 – 1966 . " Gallant " ' s second tour with the 7th Fleet ( August 1959 - March 1960 ) again included training with the Republic of Korea Navy . While operating out of the Philippines , she participated in joint readiness operations with the navies of SEATO nations . She returned to Long Beach in March 1960 and spent the next 12 months in a training schedule with the Mine force of the 1st Fleet that carried her as far north as Ketchikan , Alaska . Service during her third deployment in the Far East ( August 1961 - April 1962 ) once again included fleet readiness defense exercises with the navies of Southeast Asia . In addition , she patrolled the coast of South Vietnam and provided valuable service during training operations of the South Vietnam Navy . Returning to the West Coast on 20 April 1962 , she resumed duty out of Long Beach ; and during the next 15 months participated in fleet maneuvers and mine squadron exercises off southern California . Departing Long Beach on 12 August 1963 , " Gallant " steamed on her fourth deployment to the troubled Far East , where she arrived Sasebo , Japan , on 23 September . There , she resumed peace - keeping operations with the 7th Fleet ; and , during readiness patrols in Far Eastern waters , she cruised from the coast of South Korea through the East China and South China Seas to the coast of Southeast Asia . She departed WestPac in the spring of 1964 , and after additional training in hunting mines , sailed for blockade and coastal patrol duty off Vietnam . Arriving off the southern coast of South Vietnam on 1 October 1965 , she joined " Operation Market Time " , designed to control coastal infiltration of men and supplies by the Viet Cong . Throughout the remainder of the year , " Gallant " boarded and searched suspicious Vietnamese boats . She supported " Market Time " operations until 9 March 1966 when she departed for the United States . Steaming via the Philippines , Guam , and Pearl Harbor , she arrived Long Beach on 28 April . During the remainder of the year , she operated along the West Coast from Long Beach to Portland , Oregon , to maintain her fighting capabilities and operational readiness . During September 1966 , the vessel was used in the filming of the Elvis Presley film , Easy Come , Easy Go . Decommissioning and sale . Decommissioned on 29 April 1994 " Gallant " was sold to Taiwan on 8 September 1994 , under the Security Assistance Program , and renamed " Yung Ku " ( M 1308 ) .