(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Erie Maritime Museum & U.S. Brig Niagara, Posted on Facebook on June 6th, 2026)<\/p>\n
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n
(Erie, PA) The U.S. Brig Niagara is underway following the completion of a year-long, $6.9 million restoration project, according to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Commonwealth\u2019s flagship departed Bristol Marine\u2019s Sample\u2019s Shipyard in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, on June 6th after undergoing extensive repairs and upgrades designed to improve the vessel\u2019s structural integrity and long-term seaworthiness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Niagara is now making a\u00a0roughly 2,000-nautical-mile\u00a0journey through the North Atlantic Ocean and the St. Lawrence Seaway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The vessel is scheduled to return to its homeport at the Erie Maritime Museum in Erie for a homecoming celebration July 2nd-5th, coinciding with the city\u2019s Independence Day weekend festivities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Erie Maritime Museum & U.S. Brig Niagara, Posted on Facebook on June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-214582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}