Page:The American Cyclopædia (1879) Volume IX.djvu/47

 HULL 39 quarter called Myton. A part of the town built along the left bank of the Hull is con- nected with the remainder by a bridge of four arches. On the point of land formed by the junction of the two rivers there is a fort which commands the whole harbor. Adjoining it is the Victoria dock. The old dock, opened in 1778 on the Hull, is nine acres in extent, and can accommodate 100 square-rigged ships. There is also a railway dock at the terminus of the Hull and Selby railway. Other docks have been built of late years, and the total area of all the docks of Hull in 1874 was about 87 acres. The principal public build- ings are the custom house, exchange, post Town Hall, Hull. office, mansion house, courts of law, jail and house of correction, assembly rooms and muse- um, concert rooms, two theatres, several banks, and corn exchange. The Holy Trinity church is a handsome cruciform edifice of several cltitus; the oldest portion was built in 1270. The town has several charitable schools, one of which educates 36 boys to be seamen, and is connected with the Trinity house founded in 1366 for the relief of decayed seamen and the widows of seamen. There is a marine hos- pital attached to it. Hull college, founded in 1838, occupies a fine Grecian building. There are also a lunatic asylum, a general infirmary, a school of medicine and anatomy, various lit- erary associations with libraries, and botanic and zoological gardens and a " People's Park " of 27 acres given by Sir Z. C. Pearson in 18(14. The manufactures include canvas, chains, ma- chinery, earthenware, chemicals, leather, su- gar, cotton and linen goods, &c. There are ship-building yards, rope walks, saw mills, grist mills, bone mills, and oil mills. Tho principal exports are hardware and manufac- tures of cotton and woollen ; the imports, timber, tar, pitch, rosin, grain, wool, flax, hemp, iron, hides, tallow, horns, bones, &c. The trade is chiefly along the coast, with the Baltic ports, and with Germany, Holland, Bel- gium, Denmark, and America. Hull is an im- portant station for steam packets which connect it with various ports of Great Britain and the continent, and also has railway communication with nearly all parts of the kingdom. The to- tal imports in 1871 were valued at 15,076,095, the exports at 27,387,071. The entrances were 3,417 vessels, of 1,186,841 tons; clear- ances, 2,911 vessels, of 1,044,158 tons. Hull ranks as the third port in the kingdom. HULL, Isaac, an American naval officer, born at Derby, Conn., March 9, 1775, died in Phila- delphia, Feb.. 3, 1843. He commenced his ca- reer in the merchant service, and was commis- sioned as lieutenant in the navy at the com- mencement of hostilities with France in 1798. In 1800 he was first lieutenant of the frigate Con- stitution, and performed a very gallant achieve- ment in cutting out a French letter of marquo from under the guns of a strong battery in the harbor of Port Platte, Santo Domingo. During the war with Tripoli, 1802-'5, Hull served with distinction in the several attacks on the city of Tripoli in July, August, and September, 1804, and subsequently cooperated with Gen. Eaton in the capture of 'Derne. In 1806 he was made captain. At the opening of the war of. 1812 between the United States and Great Britain, he was in command of the frigate Constitu- tion, and in July of that year, while cruising off New York, he fell in with a British squad- ron consisting of a razee of 64 guns and four frigates, which chased the Constitution closely for nearly three days and nights. By the greatest efforts, and the exercise of a skill in handling his ship which excited the admiration of his pursuers, he succeeded in escaping. Af- ter this remarkable feat, Hull went into Boston for a few days, whence ho sailed Aug. 2, and on Aug. 19, in lat. 41 41' N., Ion. 55 48' W., discovered a ship to leeward, which was soon made out to be an English frigate. The course of the Constitution was shaped to close with this vessel, which hove to to await an engage- ment. At 5 P. M. the English frigate opened her fire at very long range, and at a little after 6 the Constitution closed w r ith her. After a desperate fight of about half an hour the Eng- lish frigate was reduced to a wreck and sur- rendered. She proved to be the Guerriere, Capt. Dacres, one of the ships which had recently chased the Constitution. Possession was taken of her soon after 7 P. M. The next