What is known about this ship
Conquest is one ship in the 93-ship Agile-design ocean-minesweeper lineage. U.S. AM/MSO changes, national pennants, conversions, and foreign transfers are retained as temporal identities on this same hull.
Service history
Transferred to Taiwan in 1995 as Yung Tzu (MSO-1307); decommissioned 2020.
Class context: Agile class
The archive uses Agile class as the umbrella for 93 completed ships of the 172-foot low-magnetic ocean-minesweeper design: 58 built for the U.S. Navy and 35 built directly for NATO/MDAP partner navies. MSO-497 was not built.
Later service and disposition
Transferred to Taiwan in 1995 as Yung Tzu (MSO-1307); decommissioned 2020.
Class relationship
This ship is recorded as a member of Agile class. Shared design history belongs on the class page; this page concentrates on the individual hull where evidence is available.
Sources and further reading
- Minesweepers MSO MSC MSI MHC MCM Post-War — ShipbuildingHistory ↗ShipbuildingHistory.com · accessed 2026-09-19
- NavSource Mine Sweeper Photo Archive — AM / MSF / MSO / BAM Index ↗NavSource Naval History · accessed 2026-09-19
- Agile-class minesweeper — consolidated class and transfer reference ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-19