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{{other ships|USS Condor}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= | Ship caption=USS YMS-192 in San Francisco Bay after World War II, c. April 1946. The minesweeper was later renamed Condor (AMS-5).
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1956}} | Ship name=USS YMS-192 | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=*Greenport Basin and Construction Co. | Ship yard number= | Ship laid down=30 September 1942 | Ship launched=5 December 1942 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=13 June 1943 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=13 June 1943 | Ship decommissioned=May 1946 | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed=USS Condor (AMS-5), 18 February 1947
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=yes | Ship namesake=the condor bird | Ship recommissioned=November 1950 | Ship reclassified=MSC(O)-5, 7 February 1955 | Ship refit= | Ship honors= | Ship fate=Transferred to Japan, March 1955
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=yes | Ship acquired=returned from Japan, early 1967 | Ship struck=31 March 1967 | Ship fate=Sunk as a target, August 1968
}}{{Infobox ship career | Ship country=Japan | Japan|naval}} | Ship name=JDS Ujishima (MSC-655) | Ship acquired=March 1955 | Ship fate=Returned to U.S., early 1967
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | 135|1}} | Ship displacement=270 tons | 136|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 24|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship power= | 8|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*2 × 880 bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines | Ship speed=15 kts | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=32 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship troops= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*1 × 3"/50 caliber dual purpose gun mount- 2 × 20 mm guns
- 2 × depth charge projectors
| Ship notes=
}} | USS Condor (MSC(O)-5/AMS-5/YMS-192) was a {{YMSsub|135}} built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named for the condor. HistoryCondor was laid down as YMS-192 on 30 September 1942 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co. of Greenport, Long Island, New York; 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, California, she was reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-5 and named USS 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. Condor was reclassified as coastal minesweeper MSC(O)-5 on 7 February 1955. Condor was loaned to Japan a month later. She was renamed JDS Ujishima (MSC-655) during her service with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Condor was returned to the U.S. Navy in early 1967, and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 March 1967. The veteran minesweeper was sunk as a target in August 1968. References - {{cite web | first = Joseph M. | last = Radigan | url = http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/05005.htm | title = Condor (MSC[O] 5), ex-AMS-5, ex-YMS-192 | work = NavSource Online | publisher = NavSource Naval History | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2007-12-29 }}
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c12/condor-ii.htm}}
External links - {{navsource|11/05005|Condor}}
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