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|Ship image= Porcupine IX-126.jpg
|Ship caption=USS ''Porcupine'', an ''Armadillo''-class tanker
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|Builders= [[California Shipbuilding Corporation]], [[Delta Shipbuilding Company]]
|Operators= [[United States Navy]], [[Maritime Commission]]
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|In service range=18 November 1943<ref name="DANFSarmadillo">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040229122100/http://history.navy.mil/danfs/a12/armadillo.htm DANFS USS ''Armadillo'']</ref> - 12 July 1946<ref name="DANFSpanda">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040329013231/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p1/panda.htm DANFS USS ''Panda'']</ref>
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|Total ships completed=20
|Total ships cancelled=2 converted to ''Stag''-class distilling ships
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|Total ships lost=1<ref name="DANFSporcupine">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040329022731/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p9/porcupine-ii.htm DANFS USS ''Porcupine'']</ref>
|Total ships retired=17
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|Ship type=[[Liberty ship|Liberty]] tanker
|Ship tonnage=*{{GRT|7,219}}
*{{DWT|10,674}}
|Ship displacement= 14,245&nbsp;tons
|Ship length=*{{convert|441|ft|6|in|m|0|abbr=on}} [[Length overall|overall]]
*{{convert|427|ft|m|0|abbr=on}} [[Length at the waterline|waterline]]
*{{convert|417|ft|9|in|m|0|abbr=on}} [[Length between perpendiculars|between perpendiculars]]
|Ship beam= {{convert|57|ft|m|0|abbr=on}} 
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|Ship draft={{convert|27|ft|9|in|m|0|abbr=on}} 
|Ship propulsion={{convert|2,500|hp|lk=in|abbr=on}}
|Ship speed= {{convert|11|kn|lk=in}} 
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|Ship capacity= {{cvt|272,978|ft3|m3 oilbbl}}
|Ship complement=  81 officers and enlisted
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|Ship armament=*Typically 1 × [[5"/38-caliber gun|5-inch 38 caliber]] dual-purpose gun
*1 × [[3"/50-caliber gun|{{convert|3|in|mm|abbr=on}}]] gun
*8 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm]] cannons
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The '''''Armadillo'' class of tankers''' was a class of Type Z-ET1-S-C3 [[Liberty ship]], that were commissioned into the [[United States Navy]].  They were given the [[hull classification symbol]]s of [[unclassified miscellaneous vessel]]s. Two would be converted to [[USS Stag|''Stag''-class]] [[distilling ship]]s  <ref>[http://www.aukevisser.nl/t2tanker/t-tankers-2/id1130.htm Liberty Tankers type (Z-) ET1-S-C3]</ref>

This group of ''Liberty'' based tankers all served in the United States Navy during the [[Second World War]].  Each ship was commissioned in late 1943, and decommissioned in the summer of 1946.  These ships primarily served in the [[Asiatic-Pacific theater]] - [[Pacific Ocean Areas]] and the [[South West Pacific Area (command)|South West Pacific Area]].  These ships brought [[aviation gasoline]] to [[Leapfrogging (strategy)|remote islands]] in the south Pacific, required for the many [[aerial reconnaissance]] missions there.<ref name="CamelDANFS">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040314042342/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c2/camel-ii.htm Dictionary for American Naval Fighting Ships: Camel-II]</ref> ''Camel'' served primarily in the [[Central Pacific Area]].

==Notable incident==
* {{USS|Porcupine|IX-126|6}} sank due to an enemy [[kamikaze]] attack on 30 December 1944 at [[Mangarin Bay]], [[Leyte]], [[Philippines]].

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