SS Pacific Tracker (Naval auxiliary vehicle) passes the Columbia River Maritime Museum on its way to Portland

Pacific Tracker (Naval auxiliary vehicle) passes the Columbia River Maritime Museum on its way to Portland

The SS Pacific Tracker launched in 1965 as the break-bulk freighter, SS Mormacdraco. She’s 202.90 meters (665 feet, 8 inches) long, and 22.86 meters (75 feet) wide.  In 2009 she was converted to X-Band Transportable Radar Ship at Cascade General Shipyards in Portland and renamed the SS Pacific Tracker.