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Condor (MSC[O] 5)
ex-AMS-5
ex-YMS-192



Call sign:
November - Zulu - Foxtrot - Sierra


Condor served the Navies of the United States and Japan.
YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: Laid down, 30 September 1942 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, Long Island, NY; Launched, 5 December 1942; Completed and commissioned USS YMS-192, 13 June 1943. YMS-192 served along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean until the Atlantic War ended in May 1945. Sent to the Pacific, she took part in post-war mine clearance operations off Japan. YMS-192 returned to the U.S. in April 1946 and was decommissioned in May. While laid up in reserve at San Diego she was reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-5 and named Condor 18 February 1947. Recommissioned for Korean War service in November 1950, Condor deployed to the combat zone in March 1951. She provided minesweeping and patrol services off Korea and Japan to the end of the conflict in July 1953 and continued her activities in that area during the following years. Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (Old), MSC(O)-5, 7 February 1955. Condor was loaned to Japan a month later. She was renamed Ujishima (MCS 655) during her service with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Returned to the U.S. Navy in 1967; Struck from the Naval Register, 31 March 1967; Sunk as a target August 1968.

Specifications: Displacement 270 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 32; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm, two dcp; Propulsion two General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.

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YMS-192
Condor 113k c. 1945-46, San Francisco Bay
YMS-192 returning to the U.S. at the end of World War II.
US Navy Photo NH 79690		 Naval Historical Center
Condor (AMS 5)
Defense 73k 8 October 1952
Laertes (AR-20) at Sasebo, Japan, with nine minesweepers and a harbor tug alongside. Ships nested to left of Laertes are (from left): Impeccable (AM-320); Gladiator (AM-319); Shoveler (AM-382); Defense (AM-317) and Devastator (AM-318). Those nested to the right are (from left): Condor; Kite (AMS-22); Curlew (AMS-8); Chatterer (AMS-40) and Wallacut
(YTB-420).
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-63229		 Naval Historical Center
AMS-5 Condor/LST-735 Dukes County 88k Dukes County LST-735 serving as mother ship for seven minesweepers, probably in a Japanese port, circa 1952-54. Ships nested alongside are: Gull (AMS-16); Firecrest (AMS-10); Condor; Merganser (AMS-26); Osprey (AMS-28); Competent (AM-316); and Chief (AM-315).
US Navy Photo NH 68589
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection.		 Naval Historical Center
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