CONDOR MSC(O) 5

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper
    Keel Laid 30 September 1942 as YMS-192
    Launched 5 December 1942

  1. YMS-192
    Completed and commissioned 13 June 1943
    Decommissioned May 1946

  2. CONDOR AMS-5
    Reclassified as Motor Minesweeper (AMS) and named 18 February 1947

  3. USS CONDOR AMS-5
    Recommissioned November 1950

  4. USS CONDOR MSC(O)-5
    Reclassified as Coastal Minesweeper, Old (MSC(O) 7 February 1955

  5. JNS UJISHIMA MCS 655 (Japanese Naval Service)
    Loaned to Japan March 1955 and renamed
    Returned to the U.S. Navy 1967

    Struck from the Naval Register 31 March 1967
    Sunk as a target in August 1968

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

  1. USS Condor MSC(O)-5 Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

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Killer Bar Text

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Locy Type
7z

1943-11-03

As YMS-192

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - A large vulture found in the high Andes.

Three ships of the US Navy have borne the name CONDOR - USS Condor AM-11 (cancelled before commissioned), USS Condor AMc-14 and USS Condor MSC(O)-5

 


 

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