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The MV Cape Henlopen and MV Cape May supplemented the first three vessels during the 1980's. The MV Twin Capes was decommissioned in 2014 and the MV Cape May decommissioned in 2010 leaving the MV Delaware, MV New Jersey and MV Cape Henlopen in operation. Each vessel consists of an open car deck situated atop a hull that is low to the water.
[1]: p.9 The Delaware River rises in the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York, flowing southward for 419 miles (674 km) into Delaware Bay where its waters enter the Atlantic Ocean near Cape May in New Jersey and Cape Henlopen in Delaware. There are 216 tributary streams and creeks, comprising an estimated 14,057 miles of streams and creeks ...
Looking north from Herring Point. Cape Henlopen State Park is a 5,193 acre (21 km 2) Delaware state park on Cape Henlopen. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County."
Damaged in 1920 by storms, it was replaced by the current structure in 1926. This light effectively replaced the 1767 Cape Henlopen Light, which was abandoned in 1924 and fell into the sea in 1926. [3] At certain places around the breakwater, the waters can be up to 70 feet deep to accommodate large ships that would anchor in the harbor.
Cape Henlopen State Park is a Delaware state park on 5,193 acres (2,102 ha) on Cape Henlopen in Sussex County, Delaware, in the United States. William Penn made the beaches of Cape Henlopen one of the first public lands established in what has become the United States in 1682 with the declaration that Cape Henlopen would be for "the usage of the citizens of Lewes and Sussex County."
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Wetlands seen along Canary Creek near Lewes.. The Cape Region is situated on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.A large portion of the region is low-lying Southern swamps and wetlands, notably found in Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Cape Henlopen State Park, and along Delaware Route 1 within Delaware Seashore State Park.
Various spellings of henlopen mean "entering in" or "approaching," although one authority insists it means "runaway cape." [ 1 ] The confusion of the placement of Cape Henlopen was the crux of a long-standing dispute between the Penns (Delaware) and the Calverts (Maryland), the latter claiming the Lewes' cape should have been the start of the ...