The modern U.S. Brig Niagara is a museum ship and sail training vessel located in Erie, Pennsylvania at the Erie Maritime Museum. The Niagara is a reconstruction of the first U.S. Brig Niagara, a brig which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Lake Erie and the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812. It is also one of the last two ships remaining from the War of 1812, with the other being the USS Constitution.
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The modern U.S. Brig Niagara is a museum ship and sail training vessel located in Erie, Pennsylvania at the Erie Maritime Museum. The Niagara is a reconstruction of the first U.S. Brig Niagara, a brig which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Lake Erie and the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812. It is also one of the last two ships remaining from the War of 1812, with the other being the USS Constitution.
The original Niagara was sunk in 1820 in Misery Bay on Presque Isle, Pennsylvania for preservation. Owned successively by Benjamin H. Brown of Rochester, New York, and Captain George Miles of Erie, Niagara was raised but found to need such extensive restoration that she was again allowed to sink. She was raised again on March 6, 1913 and restored by the Perry Centennial Commission, which towed her from Buffalo, New York to Chicago, Illinois for exhibition at all the larger towns of Lakes Huron and Michigan during the commemoration of the Battle of Lake...
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