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| Pledge (MSO 492) | ||||
| 57k | 20 July 1955 Launching M.S. Erdahl, Port Commissioner, was the Master of Ceremonies. Mrs. Theodore Ultsch did the christening assisted by Miss Janet Bruder, as the flower girl. The featured speaker was Rear Admiral [Roland N.] Smoot, USN, commander of the mine force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet |
J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. | |
| USS Pledge (MSO 492) | ||||
| 92k | Naval Minewarfare Association |
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| 97k | USS Pledge Website Don Shelton |
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| 52k | USS Pledge Website Don Shelton and P. M. Leenhauts |
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| 69k | Pledge bumper sticker | Robert Harper, EM2(SW), USS Pledge '83-87 | |
| 58k | U.S. Navy photo | Tom Langford | |
| 125k | U.S. Navy photo | David Buell | |
| 119k | Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret. | ||
| 90k | c. 1957 Hong Kong, British Crown Colony Pledge in the center |
Lyle Burnett | |
| 209k | 19 August 1960 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Photo by Walter E. Frost from City of Vancouver Archives |
Michael Mohl | |
| 617k | Ocean minesweepers of Mine Division 73 steam together in Pacific. Top to Bottom: Illusive (MSO 448), Conquest (MSO 488), Esteem (MSO 438), Gallant (MSO 489) and Pledge. 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 (of blessed memory) | |
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904k | Pledge (MSO-492) patrols The South China Sea Coastline of Republic of Vietnam as part of Operation Market Time, October 1967. | USN photo # 1142218 courtesy of National Archives via Bob Canchola. | |
| 433k | 6 June 1990 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Photo by Rick Garcia |
Chris Howell | |
| Yung Teh (M 1309) | ||||
| 21k | Dick Lewis | ||
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LCDR Thomas Dominic Pfundstein, USN | 20 April 1956 - 25 September 1957 |
| 02 | LCDR Frank K. Wodburn, USN | 25 September 1957 - 3 August 1959 |
| 03 | LCDR Theodore Roy Wilkinson, USN | 3 August 1959 - 14 April 1960 |
| 04 | LCDR Leroy Ripley Broun, USN | 14 April 1960 - 25 April 1960 |
| 05 | LCDR Ralph Ellsworth Graham, USN | 25 April 1960 - 11 July 1960 |
| 06 | LCDR Richard Warren Hanson, USN | 11 July 1960 - 26 November 1962 |
| 07 | LT David Arthur Bayer, USN | 26 November 1962 - 16 November 1964 |
| 08 | LCDR Douglas Arthur Stewart, USN | 16 November 1964 - 21 April 1967 |
| 09 | LCDR Richard Fay Pittenger, USN - Retired as Rear Admiral | 21 April 1967 - 12 July 1968 |
| 10 | LT William Campbell, Jr., USN - USNA Class of 1957 | 12 July 1968 - 9 September 1968 |
| 11 | LCDR Robert Joseph Amend, USN - USNA Class of 1960 | 9 September 1968 - 5 October 1970 |
| 12 | LCDR Vernon Lee Rosson, USN | 5 October 1970 - 21 July 1972 |
| 13 | LT Michael Darnell Robertson, USN - USNA Class of 1967 | 21 July 1972 - 15 November 1974 |
| 14 | LT Richard Cline "Dick" Branum, USN - USNA Class of 1967 | 15 November 1974 - 7 April 1977 |
| 15 | LCDR Thomas Christopher Ellis, USN | 7 April 1977 - 31 March 1979 |
| 16 | CDR Arthur Victor Schultz, Jr., USN | 31 March 1979 - 25 July 1981 |
| 17 | CDR James C. Schuhl, USN | 25 July 1981 - 5 May 1983 |
| 18 | CDR Thomas Edward Sego, USN | 5 May 1983 - 25 July 1983 |
| 19 | CDR Edmund Joseph Hunt, Jr., USN | 25 July 1983 - 7 December 1985 |
| 20 | LCDR Charles George Belcher, USN | 7 December 1985 - 16 December 1987 |
| 21 | LCDR Stephen Richard Harrington, USN | 16 December 1987 - 8 January 1988 |
| 22 | CDR James Edgar Keys, Jr., USN | 8 January 1988 - 21 July 1988 |
| 23 | CDR Bruce Thomas Van Belle, USN | 21 July 1988 - 24 February 1989 |
| 24 | LCDR Jeffrey Kendall Sapp, USN | 24 February 1989 - 24 November 1989 |
| 25 | LT David Martin Bouton, USN | 24 November 1989 - 10 January 1990 |
| 26 | CDR Daniel Allen Burns, USN - USNA Class of 1974 | 10 January 1990 - 6 April 1990 |
| 27 | LCDR Jeffrey Kendall Sapp, USN | 6 April 1990 - 28 June 1990 |
| 28 | CDR Peter Matthew Leenhouts, USN | 28 June 1990 - 16 October 1992 |
| 29 | LCDR William Conrad Fosseen, USN | 16 October 1992 - 31 January 1994 |
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