 USS Giraffe (IX-118)

USS "Giraffe" (IX-118),
an "Armadillo"-class tanker designated
an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the giraffe, a large ruminant mammal of Africa, having a very long neck that makes it the tallest of quadrupeds.Her keel was laid down as "Sanford B. Dole" by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Wilmington, California.