From the November 21, 2016, New York Times "New Victory for World War II PT Boat: Restored and Museum-Ready" by Patrick McGeehan.
The PT-305 was taken to a barge on the Mississippi River and from there it will become a fully interactive exhibit for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans this April. The museum hopes to offer the only opportunity in the U.S. to ride in a PT Boat.
It weighs 50 tons and is 78 feet long. and was found in Galveston, Texas as a sawed off wreck.
After the war it was a tour boat in New York City and later an oyster boat in the Chesapeake Bay. Like other revamped PT Boats that survived the war, it had 13-feet of its hull chopped off so it wouldn't need a licensed master captain under Coast Guard regulations.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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