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The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) canal traverses the neck of land joining Cape Cod to the state's mainland. It mostly follows tidal rivers widened to 480 ...
With the Railroad Bridge as a backdrop, the Mayflower II crew makes its way through the Cape Cod Canal in 2022. The ship is a historic reproduction of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the ...
Mayflower II passes through the Cape Cod Canal in August 2020 on its way to its homeport in Plymouth. The vessel is expected to pass through the canal again next week, depending on the weather, as ...
It will go through the Cape Cod Canal first. Gannett. Heather McCarron, Cape Cod Times. July 30, 2024 at 5:10 AM. ... Ship will transit Cape Cod Canal on way to Provincetown.
The ships had to be stable enough to cross Block Island Sound but narrow enough to pass through the Cape Cod Canal. [17] Two new ships, the Boston and New York, were built at Maryland Steel Company at Sparrows Point. [18] Each ship was 402 feet long, with 345 staterooms. They entered service in 1924, replacing the North Land and Calvin Austin.
The lighthouse was built between 1940 and 1943 after a re-dredging of the Cape Cod Canal in the late 1930s, which allowed larger ships to pass through and necessitated the marking of Cleveland East Ledge, which sits quite close to the path of ships approaching the south entrance to the canal. [5]
I write for the Cape Cod Times as a freelancer. But more important, I live in Monument Beach in Bourne, south of the bridge, and I have to drive through the rotary a lot. Often four times a day.
Each bridge carries four lanes of traffic over a 616-foot (188 m) main span, with a 135-foot (41 m) ship clearance. Construction ended in early 1935 and the bridge opened on June 22, 1935. [ 2 ] The approaches to the main span of the Bourne Bridge are considerably longer than those of the Sagamore Bridge due to the topography of the land.