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The Bavarian Belle began her career 1981 on the Mississippi River, in La Crosse, Wisconsin at La Crosse Boat Works.  Near completion of construction, she was taken down the Mississippi River and up the Ohio River to Evansville, Indiana.  She was fitted out and began operation as the Spirit of Evansville, a dinner-cruise and charter riverboat.  After 5 years in Evansville the owners, Kentuckiana Packet Lines, took her down the Ohio, down the Mississippi and up the Arkansas River to North Little Rock, Arkansas.  She continued operating as a dinner-cruise and charter riverboat with the new name of Spirit of North Little Rock.  Fifteen years later, in 2000, she was purchased by Frankenmuth River Tours for sightseeing tours in Frankenmuth, Michigan.