USS Condor (AMc-14) was a coastal minesweeper

Coastal minesweeper

Coastal minesweeper is a term used by the United States Navy to indicate a minesweeper intended for coastal use as opposed to participating in fleet operations at sea....

 of the United States Navy

United States Navy

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. The ship was constructed as the wooden-hulled purse seiner New Example at Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma, Washington

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 in 1937. Acquired by the U.S. Navy on 28 October 1940 and converted into a coastal minesweeper, she was commissioned as Condor on 18 April 1941.

U.S. Navy career

Condor was in Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

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 when the attack occurred

Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...

. In the early hours of 7 December 1941, sailors and officers aboard Condor spotted what looked like a periscope out of the water in the entrance to the harbor. They later found out that they spotted the periscope of a Japanese midget submarine

Ko-hyoteki class submarine

The class was a class of Japanese midget submarines used during World War II. They had hull numbers but no names. For simplicity, they are most often referred to by the hull number of the mother submarine...

 attempting to get into the harbor. Condors report was sent to the destroyer which fired the first shots of the Pacific War

Pacific War

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. Condor spent the war in or near Hawaii with the U.S. Navy.

Condor was decommissioned on 17 January 1946, struck from the Navy List

Naval Vessel Register

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 in February 1946, and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on 24 July 1946. Fate unknown.