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PACIFIC TRACKER - IMO 6507921
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Missile tracking vessel ready to serve as a giant's golf tee, seen moored at Vigor Industrial on Swan Island.
Originally built as a Maritime Administration (MARAD) C6-S-60a-type hull and placed into service as a break-bulk freighter with Moore-McCormack Lines. She was later lengthened and converted for partial container cargo, then returned to MARAD in 1987. She was later converted into a C6-S-MA60b-type crane ship as a part of the Military Sealift Command Ready Reserve Force before undergoing conversion to her current role in 2009.
USCG Doc #: 299008
MMSI#: 368949000
Owner: USA Dept of Transportation, Washington, DC
Operator: Missile Defense Agency, Washington, DC
Flag: USA
Hailing Port: Norfolk, VA
Call Sign: WQVZ
Length: 202.90 m
Beam: 22.86 m
Draught: 9.60 m
Tonnage: 14,001 GT/9,489 NT
Powerplant: 2x General Electric Steam Turbine, 19,250 hp
Year of Build: 1965
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS
Yard Number: 487
Former Name:
BEAVER STATE TACS10 (1997-2009)
AMERICAN DRACO (1983-97)
MORMACDRACO (1965-83)
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Former name(s):
- Beaver State (Until 2008 Jul)
- American Draco (Until 1989 Jan)
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My thoughts exactly. There's even a whole line of them, ready to moved to a driving range somewhere at sea.
Kind Regards,
Kyle
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Laid down, 13 April 1964, as the break-bulk 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Removed from MSC control, withdrawn from the RRF by reassignment to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 28 July 2006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.
(Source: Maritime Networks).
Regards Peter
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: I've hardly seen a more 'interesting' scene, Kyle, great shot !
Regards (J)
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