Flagship Niagara Senior Captain Walter Rybka received the National Maritime Historical Society’s Rodney N. Houghton Award for “the best feature article in Sea History Magazine”. Captain Rybka’s article is entitled “The War of 1812 on the Inland Seas”.
Copies of the magazine are available through local book stores or you can find Captain Rybka’s War of 1812 article here: The War of 1812 on the Inland Seas.
To learn more about the Erie Maritime Museum and the 2013 Tall Ships Festival, visit their website www.eriemaritimemuseum.org