RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A high-class tugboat in Norfolk is soon going on display in Florida.

Before it was retired in 1994, the Huntington moved an estimated 40,000 vessels during a 61-year career at the Newport News Shipyard, including the USS John F. Kennedy and the Queen Elizabeth Two, along with other luxury liners and submarines.

Officials say the tugboat is a fixture in American shipbuilding. Now the 109-foot Huntington is in Florida for an exhibit at the Palm Beach Maritime Museum.

The Huntington will be used as an exhibit and a classroom for the museum's West Palm Beach charter school maritime students. The exhibit is expected to open next month, joining the Kennedy Bunker and the abandoned Coast Guard Station run by the museum on Peanut Island.

According to the Norfolk City Website, the 1933 Tug Huntington has been restored as a dockside museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites and is home to the Tugboat Museum in downtown.

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