USS Armadillo (IX-111)
 USS Armadillo (IX-111) the lead ship of her class of tanker was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the armadillo an insect-eating mammal which has an armorlike shell encasing its back and head. Her keel was laid down as Sidney Howard (T. Z-ET1-S-C3) under a Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 1900) on 24 September 1943 at Wilmington California by the California Shipbuilding Company. She was launched on 26 October 1943 sponsored by Mrs. S.