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The first records indicate its location as being "on the west shore of Cape Cod Bay, seven miles southeast of Plymouth, Massachusetts." [1] The station opened on October 15, 1874, with Stephen Holmes appointed as its first keeper. At the age of 37, Holmes already had 20 years' experience as a surfman. [1]
A schooner that was blown onto the beach at Scituate in the Portland Gale. Delaware: 27 November 1898 A barge that sank off Scituate in the Portland Gale. Edna G. United States: June 1988 A fishing vessel that sank near Stellwagen Bank. Favorite: 28 January 1805 A ship Favorite bilged off Rocky Point, Plymouth in the Blizzard of 1805. "Boston ...
Cape Cod Bay is a large bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Measuring 604 square miles (1,560 km 2 ) below a line drawn from Brant Rock in Marshfield to Race Point in Provincetown, Massachusetts , it is enclosed by Cape Cod to the south and east, and Plymouth County, Massachusetts , to the west.
McMahon owned the Cape Cod Coliseum and wanted to secure an American Hockey League franchise for the arena. When he was unable to finalize plans for the 1981–82 season, McMahon was approached by Frazier Gleason of Indianapolis who wanted to run a franchise in the new Atlantic Coast Hockey League.
The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management limits its definition of the South Shore to the municipalities between Boston Harbor and Cape Cod, which includes Atlantic coastal and coastal watershed areas "from the three-mile (5 km) limit of the state territorial sea to 100 feet (30 m) beyond the first major land transportation route encountered (a road, highway, rail line, etc.)". [4]
The bay extends from Cape Ann on the north to Plymouth Harbor on the south, a distance of about 42 miles (68 km). Its northern and southern shores incline toward each other through the entrance to Boston Harbor, where they are about five miles apart. The depth from the base of the triangle to Boston Harbor is about 21 miles (34 km).
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (officially the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary) is an 842-square-mile (636 sq nmi; 2,181 km 2) United States Government-protected national marine sanctuary located at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay between Cape Cod and Cape Ann.
Marshfield is located on the South Shore, about where Cape Cod Bay meets Massachusetts Bay. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 31.74 square miles (82.2 km 2), of which 28.46 square miles (73.7 km 2) is land and 3.28 square miles (8.5 km 2) (10.33%) is water.