SS Beaver State (T-ACS-10)

SS Beaver State (T-ACS-10) was laid down on 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. She was launched on 14 January 1965 and delivered to the Moore-McCormack Lines, 28 May 1965. She was converted to a MARAD type hull (C6-S-MA60b) crane ship at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA and renamed SS American Draco, 13 September 1983. She was transferred to the United States Lines, 1 November 1983 and reacquired by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) on 2 April, 1987. She was then assigned by the Maritime Administration to the Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), under operation control of the Military Sealift Command (MSC) and placed in service as SS Beaver State (ACS-10), 4 May 1997. Beaver State was berthed at Bremerton, WA. and assigned to Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron Three and was maintained in a five-day readiness status. She was removed from MSC control, withdrawn from the RRF by reassignment to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 28 July 2006.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) and renamed SS Pacific Tracker, 1 April 2009.