This made the Delaware coast a more popular vacation destination, and the development of real estate in and around Bethany Beach began in earnest.
On 24 December 1912, Merion collided with a tanker off the Delaware coast and sustained damage which included two flooded compartments.
He did that very effectively and was the first to introduce defined search patterns, so that all of the Delaware coast was patrolled.
However, on May 12, 2008, the "Russell W. Peterson" was destroyed in a storm off the Delaware coast, killing one of its two crew members.
A couple of years ago, a Delaware-based research group offered the basket makers land to experiment with growing sweetgrass along the Delaware coast.
Around 4:00 am the same day, the brig Chanticleer, located near the lower Delaware coast, recorded a strong gust of wind.
The powerful Turmansky twin turbojets would get him there just after the presidential plane reached a point 120 miles off the Delaware coast.
The same can be said for hotels on the Delaware coast.
About 17.5 million years ago, more than 100 kinds of mollusks lived in the waters off the Delaware coast.
Ocean View is near Bethany Beach on the Delaware coast.