 USS Gemsbok (IX-117)

USS "Gemsbok" (IX-117), an "Armadillo"-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the gemsbok, a large, handsome species of straight-horned African antelope.Her keel was laid down as "Carl R. Gray" by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Wilmington, California.