"Elliot" deployed for WestPac-91 on 31 July 1991 with COMDESRON 17 embarked. Port visits were made to Pearl Harbor; Subic Bay; Phuket, Thailand; Bahrain; Oman; Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Hong Kong. On 21 October, while deployed off the coast of Kuwait, "Elliot" was alerted by the French DGSE ship "Le Berry" to the presence of a drifting Iraqi LUGM-145 mine approximately 12 nm offshore from Kuwait's Mina Al-Ahmadi port. Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit One, Detachment 31 team members were flown in from Bahrain. With the assistance of "Elliot's" air detachment the mine was safely detonated, resulting in a plume of water hundreds of feet tall. "Elliot" spent the Christmas holiday in Hong Kong before returning to San Diego on 20 January 1992.