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New west Louisville children’s museum AHOY to include historic shrimp boat

Sitting nearly six miles downriver from downtown Jeffersonville, Indiana, in a spot where barges normally occupy the Ohio River, a historic shrimp boat waited to start its final voyage.  Suspended by a crane high above the water in which it sat unused for decades, the 70,000-pound shrimp boat was creaking. Katy Delahanty looked on from the bank of Utica Pike in Jeffersonville and watched crane operators, workers on tugboats, and others come together to lift the 75-year-old boat out of the Ohio River so it could be moved to its new home. Photos, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 10:19