{"id":51,"date":"2019-01-11T19:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/?p=51"},"modified":"2019-01-11T20:13:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:13:30","slug":"new-captain-for-uss-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/article-no-hero\/new-captain-for-uss-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"New Captain for USS Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>New Captain for USS Niagara<\/h1>\n<p>Capt. Christopher Cusson \u201906 will oversee sailing programs, operations and maintenance for the <em>Niagara<\/em>, a wooden-hulled snow-brig that served as the relief flagship for Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Cusson, who&#8217;s been with the Flagship Niagara League, the non-profit organization that supports the ship, for 10 years, says he looks forward to hiring crew and getting ready for 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone sideImageR\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-image-53 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/Cusson-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/Cusson-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/Cusson.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt. Christopher Cusson \u201906<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cusson succeeds Capt. William Sabatini \u201905 who was promoted to Fleet Captain and Executive Director in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/flagship-niagara-league-promotes-christopher-cusson-to-captain-us-brig-niagara\/1599969341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Captain for USS Niagara<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Christopher Cusson \u201906 will oversee sailing programs, operations and maintenance for the <em>Niagara<\/em>, a wooden-hulled snow-brig that served as the relief flagship for Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Cusson, who&#8217;s been with the Flagship Niagara League, the non-profit organization that supports the ship, for 10 years, says he looks forward to hiring crew and getting ready for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cusson succeeds Capt. William Sabatini \u201905 who was promoted to Fleet Captain and Executive Director in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/flagship-niagara-league-promotes-christopher-cusson-to-captain-us-brig-niagara\/1599969341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/article-no-hero\/new-captain-for-uss-niagara\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-january-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}