USS Clifton (IX-184) was a storage tanker that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946 as an unclassified miscellaneous vessel.

[3] In October 1943 the Vice Chief of Naval Operations requested that the War Shipping Administration's Auxiliary Vessels Board acquire 35 elderly tankers for use as mobile floating storage ships at advanced bases in the Pacific area.

[4] In August 1944 four of these tankers were assigned to Service Force, Seventh Fleet, in the Southwest Pacific Area.

[1] Dilworth was transferred to the Navy from the War Shipping Administration at Brisbane on 31 May 1945, and commissioned on 2 June as Clifton.

She returned to the United States via Pearl Harbor and San Pedro, California, and arrived at Mobile, Alabama, on 14 January 1946.