 USS Panda (IX-125)

USS "Panda" (IX-125), an "Armadillo"-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the panda.Her keel was laid down as "Opie Read" (MC hull 1929) in 1943 by Delta Shipbuilding Company, in New Orleans, Louisiana (T. Z.ET1.S.C3).