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YMS-192 / AMS-5 / MSC(O)-5 Condor


YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Mine Sweeper: laid down at Greenport, NY; Commissioned USS YMS-192, 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 redesignated, 18 February 1947, a Motor Minesweeper (AMS) and renamed Condor(AMS-5). 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. Redesignated Coastal Mine Sweeper, Old (MSC(O)-5) in February 1955, Condor was loaned to Japan a month later. She was renamed Ujishima during her service with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Returned to the U.S. Navy in 1967, Final Disposition, she was 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 diesel.
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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)
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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 right are (from left):
Condor (AMS-5);
Kite (AMS-22);
Curlew (AMS-8);
Chatterer (AMS-40) and
Wallacut (YTB-420)
US Navy photo (G-63229), now in the
collections of the National Archives.
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AMS-5 Condor/LST-735 Dukes County 88k LST-735 Dukes County 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(AMS-5);
Merganser (AMS-26);
Osprey (AMS-28);
Competent
(AM-316);
Chief (AM-315).
US Navy photo NH 68589
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection.
Naval Historical Center Photograph.

View the Condor (AMS-5)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
Reunions Magazine
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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