The ship sent out an emergency call about 450 miles east of Cape Henry, Va.
The more probable story is that when mariners cleared Cape Henry, they would begin their first turn or sea tack.
Five days later the same two captured the brig Gale, off Cape Henry.
Then on the 14th, they took the brig Patty, also off Cape Henry.
He also took part in the Battle of Cape Henry in 1781.
In 1720, Virginia's governor requested that a lighthouse be built on Cape Henry.
It got its name because its land mass resembled Cape Henry from the ocean.
The Saratoga was due east of Cape Henry when she began the chase.
I wanted to run her through the rip at Cape Henry.
In the 1870s, people worried about the condition and safety of the old lighthouse at Cape Henry.