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{{short description|Minesweeper of the United States Navy}}
{{other ships|USS Cormorant}}
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|Ship image=USS Cormorant (AMS-122) 13 October 1953.jpg
|Ship caption=USS ''Cormorant'' (AMS-122), off [[Mare Island]], 13 October 1953.
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|Ship country= United States
|Ship flag= {{USN flag|1974}}
|Ship name= ''Cormorant''
|Ship namesake= [[Cormorant]]
|Ship ordered=
|Ship builder=[[Mare Island Naval Shipyard]], [[Vallejo, California]]
|Ship laid down=  5 February 1952
|Ship launched= 8 June 1953
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|Ship commissioned= 14 August 1953
|Ship decommissioned=
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|Ship reclassified= Coastal Minesweeper, 7 February 1955
|Ship struck= 15 March 1974
|Ship reinstated=
|Ship homeport=
|Ship identification=*[[Hull classification symbol#Mine warfare type|Hull symbol]]: AMS-122
*Hull symbol: MSC-122
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|Ship fate= Sold for scrap, 1 December 1974
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|Ship class= {{sclass|Bluebird|minesweeper||ship}}
|Ship displacement= {{cvt|330|LT}}
|Ship length= {{cvt|144|ft}}
|Ship beam= {{cvt|28|ft}}
|Ship draft= {{cvt|12|ft}}
|Ship power=
*4 × [[Packard]] {{cvt|600|hp}} [[diesel engine]]s
*{{cvt|2400|hp}}
|Ship propulsion=2 × [[Propeller|screws]]
|Ship speed= {{cvt|13|kn|lk=in}}
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|Ship complement=39
|Ship sensors=
|Ship EW=
|Ship armament=*2 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|{{cvt|20|mm|1}} Oerlikon cannons]] [[anti-aircraft]] (AA) mounts
*2 × [[M2 Browning|caliber {{cvt|.50|in|1}} machine guns]]
*1 × [[M29 mortar|81 mm mortar]]
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'''USS ''Cormorant'' (AMS-122/MSC-122)''' was a {{sclass|Bluebird|minesweeper||ship}} in the [[United States Navy]].
==Construction==
''Cormorant'' was {{cnspan|laid down 5 February 1952|date=June 2020}}, as '''AMS-122'''; launched 8 June 1953, by [[Mare Island Naval Shipyard]], [[Vallejo, California]]; sponsored by Mrs. I. H. Whitthorne; and commissioned 14 August 1953. She was reclassified MSC-122, 7 February 1955.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}
== East Coast Activity ==
For the rest of the year ''Cormorant'' conducted minesweeping, sonar school, and other operations on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] except for a brief cruise to [[Pearl Harbor]] for duty with the [[United States Navy Reserve|Naval Reserve]] Training Center.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}
== Pacific Ocean operations==
Sailing to the Far East, ''Cormorant'' arrived at her new home port [[Sasebo, Nagasaki|Sasebo]] 22 February. She remained in the western Pacific conducting [[Minesweeper (ship)|minesweeping]] exercises in Korean and Japanese waters and voyaging to [[Taiwan|Formosa]], [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]], and the [[Philippines]] for training through 1960.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}
''Cormorant''{{'}}s final homeport was [[Everett, Washington]], where she served as a Reserve training ship.{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}
== Decommissioning ==
''Cormorant'' was decommissioned at Everett, Washington in 1970.{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}} She was struck from the [[Naval Register]] 15 March 1974.  She was disposed of 1 December 1974, through the [[Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service]] for scrap.{{sfn|Navsource}}
== Notes ==
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== Bibliography ==
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'''Online resources'''
* {{cite DANFS
| url = https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/cormorant-ii.html
| title = Cormorant II (AMS-122)
| publisher = Naval History and Heritage Command
| date = 6 July 2015
| access-date = 17 March 2017
| ref = {{sfnRef|DANFS|2015}}
}}{{PD-notice}}
* {{cite web
| url = http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/05122.htm
| title= USS Cormorant (MSC 122)
| publisher= Navsource.org
| access-date= 17 March 2017
| ref= {{sfnRef|Navsource}}
}}
{{refend}}
==Further reading==
*{{cite book|last=Blackman|first=Raymond V. B|title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1962–63|year=1962|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd|location=London}}
== External links ==
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/#Anchor-Editoria-14954 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]
* [http://www.multied.com/Navy/Minelayer/Cormorant2.html Cormorant AMS-122]
* {{navsource|11/05122|USS Cormorant (AMS/MSC-122)}}
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