There he taught a very popular undergraduate course titled "Oceanic History and Affairs", later changed to "Maritime and Naval History and Affairs", popularly referred to as 'Boats.'. He held that position until 1963, when he received emeritus status. He was succeeded to the Gardiner's chair by John H. Parry. In 1955, Albion founded and was the first director of the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History at Mystic Seaport, a summer graduate program in which he trained and inspired many of the nation's leading maritime historians, regularly teaching there for twenty years until retiring in 1975. Albion also served as vice president of the Naval Historical Foundation and as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History and the American Neptune. Late in his career he aught at the University of Maine. Albion was a pioneer in the use of television for distance education. He lectured afloat for the Harvard Polaris Program and served as a visiting professor at a number of universities between 1964 and 1972, including University of Connecticut, Emory University, Carleton College and Bowdoin College. Later years Albion lived for four years at the Groton Regency Convalescent Home in Groton, Connecticut, dying there at the age of 86. He left no immediate survivors. He is buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, South Portland. Published works Forests and Seapower (1926, 1965, 2000) Introduction to military history (1929, 1971) Brief biographies in American history, with Jennie Barnes Pope (1930) Brief biographies in modern history, by Jennie B. Pope, Helen B. Clark [and] Robert G. Albion. (1930) Brief biographies in ancient history, by Jennie B. Pope, M.A., Robert G. Albion, Ph.D., Helen B. Clark, M.A. (1931) Brief biographies in medieval and early modern history, by Jennie B. Pope, M.A., Robert G. Albion, Ph.D., and Helen C. Clark, M.A. (1931) Visualized early European history, by J.B. Pope ... edited by Robert G. Albion (1936) A history of England and the British Empire, by Walter Phelps Hall and Robert Greenhalgh Albion, with the collaboration of Jennie Barnes Pope. (1937, 1946, 1971, 1984) Square-Riggers on Schedule (1938, 1965) The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860, with the collaboration of Jennie Barnes Pope (1939, 1961, 1970, 1984) Sea lanes in wartime: the American experience, 1775-1942, by Robert Greenhalgh Albion and Jennie Barnes Pope (1942, 1968) Seaports South of the Sahara: The achievements of an American steamship service. With