Officials from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) have confirmed that Brig Niagara, Pennsylvania’s Flagship, will sail the Great Lakes again this summer.
Erie News Now reports that because of concerns over COVID-19, Niagara hasn’t sailed since 2019 — except to travel to dry dock in Cleveland for some critical maintenance and repairs.
In a news release issued in December by the Flagship Niagara League, as the freshly repaired and repainted brig returned to the Port of Erie, officials said, “Once inspected by the U.S. Coast Guard, dockside tours will resume at the Erie Maritime Museum. Next year, (2022) Niagara will return to her normal schedule of sail training and sailing to all five Great Lakes as part of Tall Ships Challenge in 2022.”
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Last Wednesday, it was widely reported that Rotterdam would dismantle the center span of a historic railroad bridge to allow the 417-foot-long, three-masted sailing yacht built for billionaire Jeff Bezos to access the sea. The fully rigged superyacht apparently has too great an air-draft to safely fit beneath the Koningshaven Bridge, which has a clearance of 131 feet over the Nieuwe Maas River. 
Here is a story well worth retelling; an updated repost in honor of Black History Month; the remarkable story of Robert Smalls.
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Russia planned on holding naval exercises off the coast of Ireland. Fishermen from County Cork on Ireland’s southern coast saw the exercises as a threat to their livelihood and threatened to continue fishing as usual, despite the threatened use of naval artillery and rockets in the area. They stated, “
Iceberg A68a, once the world’s largest iceberg, is now gone, broken up into chunks too small to track. While the iceberg is recent history, scientists are still studying its impact.
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