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SS Pacific Tracker (XTR-1)
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SS Beaver State (ACS-10) (1964 - 2006)

Keystone State Class Crane Ship):

Laid down, 13 April 1964, as the breakbulk ship, SS Mormacdraco, a Maritime Administration type (C6-S-60a) hull, under Maritime Administration contract (MA 144) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Inc., Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 14 January 1965

Delivered to the Moore-McCormack Lines, 28 May 1965

Converted to a MARAD type hull (C6-S-MA60b) Crane Ship at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA.

Renamed SS American Draco, 13 September 1983

Transferred to the United States Lines, 1 November 1983

Reacquired by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) in April 1987

Assigned by the Maritime Administration to the Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), under operation control of the Military Sealift Command (MSC)

Placed in service as SS Beaver State (ACS-10), 4 May 1997

SS Beaver State (ACS-10) was berthed at Bremerton, WA. and assigned to Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron Three and was maintained in a five-day readiness status

Removed from MSC control, withdrawn from the RRF by reassignment to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 28 July 2006

Converted for the Missile Defense Agency at Cascade General Shipyards, Portland, OR. to an X-Band Transportable Radar Ship, designated (XTR-1)

Renamed SS Pacific Tracker, 1 April 2009.

Specifications:
Displacement 11,714 t.(lt) 31,500 t.(fl)
Length 668' 6"
Beam 76' 1"
Draft 33' 5"
Speed 20.4 kts.
Cargo Capacity 300+ standard containers
Complement Fully oppositional status 89 civilian mariners, Reserve operational status 10 civilian mariners
Armament none
Propulsion

two General Electric turbines

two boilers

single propeller, 19,250shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Merchant Service
	88k	SS Mormacdraco underway in 1971, at Santos Brazil.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
09761010	186k	SS Mormacdraco underway at Maassluis, Rotterdam, Netherlands, date unknown. Photo by Bob Scott, Shipspotting.com	Tommy Trampp
	64k	SS American Draco moored pierside at Santos, Brazil while working cargo in October 1983.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
US Maritime Commission RRF
	94k	*SS Beaver State* (ACS-10)** passing under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, date unknown. US Maritime Administration photo	MARAD web site
	106k	*SS Beaver State* (ACS-10)** underway in San Francisco Bay, date unknown. US Maritime Administration photo	MARAD web site
US Missile Defense Agency
	578k	*SS Pacific Tracker* (XTR-1)** moored at Swan Shipyard Portland OR., 7 May 2011.	Photo by Vern Bouwman
09761012	110k	*SS Pacific Tracker* (XTR-1)** underway on the Columbia River, 25 June 2013 Photo by Frans Eykel, Shipspotting.com	Tommy Trampp
09761011	290k	*SS Pacific Tracker* (XTR-1)** moored at Portland, OR. 12, July 2013. Photo by David754, Shipspotting.com	Tommy Trampp
09761009	294k	*SS Pacific Tracker* (XTR-1)** moored at Vigor Industrial on Swan Island, Portland, OR., 2 August 2015. Photo by Kyle Stubbs, Shipspotting.com	Tommy Trampp