The National World War II Museum has nearly finished restoring a patrol torpedo boat that sank two armored German supply barges and carried U.S. commandos to the south of France.

PT-658 was built in 1945 in New Orleans. Save the PT Boat Inc. acquired and moved it to Portland in 1994. The restored 78-and-a-half-feet boat made its first lengthy trip in mid-September 2004.

Visitors tour the top-deck of PT-305, a fully restored WWII patrol-torpedo boat, Sunday, July 22, 2018, docked at the Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster Bar in New Orleans.

After World War II, PT-305 was cut down to 60 feet and spent decades as a tour boat and a Chesapeake Bay oyster boat. Much of the remaining hull and deck were warped or rotted when the museum ...