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    Consisting actually of two side-by-side bridges, the Delaware Memorial Bridge is a suspension bridge.  The first span was completed 1951 and the second one in 1968.  Featured here are the towers and anchorages; length from anchor to anchor of each span is 3,650 feet.  It replaced the ferry between Pennsville, New Jersey, and New Castle, Delaware, just south of Wilmington.  Its engineer was Othmar Ammann, and resemblance to his other masterwork, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, is apparent.  Phillyroads.com reports 188 foot clearance above mean high water, required by Defense regulations to permit ship passage beneath.