 USS Moose (IX-124)

USS "Moose" (IX-124), an "Armadillo"-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the moose, a large ruminant animal of the deer family, found in Canada and the northern United States.Originally named "Mason L. Weems", she was renamed "Moose" 27 October 1943.