 USS Ibex (IX-119)

USS "Ibex" (IX-119),
an "Armadillo"-class tanker designated
an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the ibex, a variety of wild goat found in Europe, Asia, and Africa.Her keel was laid down as "Nicholas Longworth" under a Maritime Commission contract (T. EC2-S-C1) by the California Shipbuilding Corporation in Wilmington, California, on 16 October 1943.