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PT-305, a "patrol torpedo" built by Higgins Industries in New Orleans that served in the European theater of World War Ⅱ from 1944 to the end of the war, has made its way to a new home at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, thanks in part to the transportation services of Canal Barge Company. After the war, PT-305, which was nicknamed USS Sudden Jerk, came back to the United States, where it spent time as a tour boat in New York, as an oyster boat and as a fishing charter, according to the National WWII Museum. At the time the museum acquired the vessel in 2007, it was drydocked and in a state of disrepair in Galveston, Texas. Over the decade that followed, National WWII Museum staff and volunteers completely rebuilt and restored PT-305 inside the museums Kushner Restoration Pavilion (KRP). Then, in March 2017, the vessel was relocated to Lake Pontchartrain, where visitors had the chance to ride on PT-305 in the very waters in which it was sea trialed in the 1940s. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, though, museum leadership decided to move PT-305 to storage near Seabrook on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. |