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Delaware Bay: see Delaware Delaware (dĕl`əwâr, –wər), river, c.280 mi (450 km) long, rising in the Catskill Mts., SE N.Y. ..... Click the link for more information. , river. Delaware BayInlet of the Atlantic Ocean. Forming part of the New Jersey-Delaware state border, it extends southeast for 52 mi (84 km) from the junction of the Delaware River with Alloway Creek to its entrance between Cape May and Cape Henlopen. Bordered by marshy lowlands, the bay is an important link in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Years ago, I wrote about another vessel regulated by the Coast Guard, a ferry that crosses the wide mouth of the Delaware Bay, noting that it had a sign reading, "Life Boats this way," that pointed its 700 passengers to two boats with a capacity of 25 persons each. Utsch's lies at the entrance to Cape May Canal--not a canal in the usual sense, but a marine shortcut that makes Cape May an island and also allows cruising boats to slip behind the ugly, extensive shoals southwest of the cape itself and avoid the big-ship traffic nexus at the mouth of Delaware Bay. In September 1920, an extraordinary maritime drama took place in the Atlantic off Delaware Bay. |
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