USS Giraffe (IX-118)
 USS Giraffe (IX-118)an Armadillo-class tanker designatedan 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. She was launched on 11 November 1943 sponsored by Miss Mary F.