High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Gannet (MSC-290) was an Albatross-class coastal minesweeper of the United States Navy. Laid down on 1 May 1959 by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Inc., Tacoma, Washington, the ship was launched on 2 May 1960, sponsored by Mrs. Frank P. Luongo, Jr.; and commissioned in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 14 July 1961, Lt. E. L. Gaylor in command. After shakedown, Gannet departed Puget Sound on 4 August 1961 and arrived Long Beach, California, on 9 August. As a unit of Mine Division 92, she operated off southern California and conducted exercises in mine countermeasures. During the first two weeks in June 1962 she participated in Joint Task Force 8 nuclear tests off the California coast. Local operations out of Long Beach, California, continued until 2 July when she departed for Japan via Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Guam, arriving Sasebo on 13 August.

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