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  ISAAC HULL (1775-1843) - Online Information article about ISAAC HULL (1775-1843)
ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)
COMMODORE (a form of " commander"; in the 17th century the term " commandore " is used)
Hull had been cruising off the Gulf of St See also:
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 William Hull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hull was, at least in part, the victim of poor preparation for war by the U.S. government and miscommunication.
While governor, Hull's repeated requests to build a naval fleet on Lake Erie to properly defend Detroit, Fort Mackinac, and Fort Dearborn were ignored by the commander of the northeast, General Henry Dearborn.
Hull was court-martialed, and at a trial presided over by General Henry Dearborn, he was sentenced to be shot, though upon recommendation of mercy by the court, Hull received a reprieve from President James Madison.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hull   (453 words)

  
 William Hull
His ancestor, Richard Hull, supposed to be a brother of John Hull, of Boston, the mint master, was made a freeman of Massachusetts in 1634, and removed to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1639.
Isaac's father having died, he was adopted by his uncle, General Hull, who wished to educate him with a view to his entering Yale college, where he himself was graduated in 1772, but the boy's unconquerable passion for the sea made him an unwilling as well as an unsuccessful student.
Hull, already advanced to the grade of 1st lieutenant, sailed "Old Ironsides," and the admirable manner in which he did it was long a subject of eulogy.
www.famousamericans.net /williamhull   (3215 words)

  
 SeacoastNH.com - How Isaac Hull Built Washington
Hull grew to dislike the pair, fearing one was too old and the other too inexperienced -- and too inclined to drinking.
Hull learned that the old wooden "ways" used to launch the former ship were too worn and damaged to use again.
Hull was forced to beg for supplies from the neighboring commander at Boston Yard, wasting away the summer building season on tedious political wrangling.
seacoastnh.com /Maritime_History/Old_Ironsides/How_Isaac_Hull_Built_Washington   (1533 words)

  
 Biography - Captain Isaac Hull, USN
Naval officer Isaac Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut, 9 March 1773, son of Joseph Hull, and nephew of General William Hull, the revolutionary officer.
Hull launched and manned the boats to tow; all the light canvas that would draw was set, and soon he was slowly moving away in a manner that puzzled his pursuers.
Hull was eager to pluck out the sting of these insults, and fearing that the timid policy of the Navy Department might detain him in port, sailed from Boston 2 August 1812.
www.history.navy.mil /bios/hull_isaac.htm   (2381 words)

  
 US People--Hull, Isaac (1773-1843)
Isaac Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut, on 9 March 1773.
On 19 August 1812, Constitution encountered the British frigate Guerriere at sea and pounded her to a wreck in an action that electrified the Nation and demonstrated that the small U.S. Navy was a worthy and dangerous opponent for Britain's otherwise overwhelming maritime might.
Isaac Hull commanded the Portsmouth Navy Yard at Kittery, Maine, for the rest of the War of 1812, then briefly served on the Board of Navy Commissioners in Washington before taking over leadership of the Boston Navy Yard.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-h/i-hull.htm   (834 words)

  
 USS Hull (DD-350), Farragut-class destroyer
The third USS Hull, DD 350, was launched by New York Navy Yard 31 January 1934 sponsored by Miss Patricia Louise Platt; and commissioned 11 January 1935, Commander R. Wentworth in command.
Isaac Hull was born 9 March 1773 at Derby, Connecticut and was appointed lieutenant in the Navy on his 25th birthday.
Hull was soon back in the thick of combat, however, as she sailed 7 December for Suvu, Fiji Islands, to prepare for America's first offensive land thrust, the amphibious assault on Guadalcanal.
www.destroyerhistory.org /goldplater/usshull.html   (471 words)

  
 CONSTITUTION Defeats HBMS GUERRIERE
Hull retook the three prizes, and from his British prisoners learned that six frigates were patrolling the general area on the alert for the likes of Constitution.
Simultaneously, Hull attempted to turn across the Briton's bow and rake, "but our braces being shot away...we could not effect it." The net effect of the two captains' actions was that the British ship crashed into Constitution's larboard mizzen rigging, destroying the quarter boat in the davits, and momentarily becoming snagged.
Isaac Hull next took up a position off his crippled enemy's larboard bow from which he fired several broadsides into him, according to one report blowing the first two gun ports on that side into one gaping hole.
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 Isaac Hull (1773-1843)
Hull was appointed commander of the fledgling Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, purchased in 1800 and today the nation's oldest operating federal shipyard.
Hull found a weed-infested island on the Kittery, Maine side of the Piscataqua River with only 13 workers.
Ironsides was assigned to Portsmouth as a receiving ship for nearly 20 years in the latter 19th century, but was removed permanently to her home base in Charlestown, MA where the ship is a floating museum.
www.seacoastsearch.com /nhlinks/people/isaachull   (516 words)

  
 Hull Family Papers, 1825-1998
William Hull (1753-1825) was born in Derby, Conn., the son of Joseph and Eliza (Clark) Hull (1732-1826).
Isaac Hull (1773-1843) was born in Shelton, Con.., the second of seven sons born to Joseph (b.1750) and Sarah (Bennett) Hull.
The remainder of the collection consists of materials relating to William Hull’s wife Sarah Fuller Hull dated 1897 to 1913 and the Hull-Fuller house dated 1889 to 1956.
www.ci.newton.ma.us /jackson/descriptions/hull.htm   (562 words)

  
 Commodore Hull   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Isaac Hull; born in Derby, Connecticut on 9 March 1773; began US Navy service as a cabin boy in 1787 and grew to become a very skilled seaman.
Hull was appointed commander of the fledgling Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, purchased in 1800.
Commodore Hull's post war assignments were Commander of the Pacific Squadron, Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, and Commander of the US Mediterranean Squadron.
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 USS Hull (DD 945)
HULL's 1965 Seventh Fleet tour was the first of six Vietnam War deployments, during which she fired tens of thousands of five-inch shells in support of forces ashore and helped rescue several downed U.S. aviators.
The big gun was removed in 1979, and HULL spent the rest of her days with the three five-inch gun mounts that were typical of her class.
USS HULL decommissioned in July 1983 and was sunk as a target in April 1998.
navysite.de /dd/dd945.htm   (788 words)

  
 Princess Anne Library Exhibits
A short time later, in a single-ship battle with HMS Guerriere, Hull's cannons smashed all of Guerriere's masts and left her helpless in the water.
Hull was later appointed head of naval operations and given the title, "Commodore." He retied to the city of Philadelphia where he proudly wore his naval uniform everyday until he died.
One of Commodore Hulls' uniforms is on display in the Maryland Room at the Somerset County Library, Princess Anne Headquarters, on loan from his grand nieces, Holly Baker, Merry White, and Bonita Nelson Porter.
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 hull - definition by dict.die.net
hull n 1: dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut 2: persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g.
To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.
dict.die.net /hull   (151 words)

  
 Search Results for "Hull"
Hull, Bobby, (Robert Marvin Hull, Jr.), 1939-, Canadian hockey player.
Considered to be the best left wing in the sport's history, Hull was skating from age three...
Hull, city, England, officially Kingston upon Hull, city (1991 pop.
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Hull   (222 words)

  
 Hull Family History
The Rev. Joseph Hull was born in 1596 in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England.
The Hull family is then traced from New Jersey into Anson County, North Carolina and Moses Hull, who was the fifth generation in the New World.
Roots Surname List RSL offers registered Hull researchers listings showing the earliest and latest dates of their Hull family data, origination of family, migration route and last, the E-Mail address of the submitter of the Hull family data.
www.jackmasters.net /hull.html   (547 words)

  
 Leader-Captain Isaac Hull of the American Navy
He was commissioned a lieutenant in the newly-formed United States Navy in March of 1798 and distinguished himself during the next 2 years while serving on board the frigate USS Constitution in the Quasi-War with France and in the Tripolitan War, from 1801–05.
The helpless hulk was burned, and Hull returned to the mainland a hero.
Hull was noted for the victory of his ship the USS Constitution over the British frigate HMS Guerrière in the War of 1812.
www.mywarof1812.com /leaders/hull_isaac.htm   (445 words)

  
 City of Maumee, Ohio
Isaac was a nephew of Commodore Hull, who commanded the U.S.S. Constitution during the War of 1812.
Isaac was known for his feats of physical endurance and it was said that he often walked between Maumee and Defiance, Ohio, in a single day to look after his various business interests.
Isaac Hull, the Maumee pioneer who built the first Maumee-Perrysburg bridge, married Chloe Spafford of Rochester, New York in 1827.
www.maumee.org /about/114Eharr.htm   (338 words)

  
 Isaac Hull - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Isaac Hull - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Isaac (Hebrew, “laughter”), biblical patriarch, the son of Abraham, half brother of Ishmael, and father of Jacob and Esau.
Universite de Quebec a Hull, Universite du Quebec a Hull
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 Papers of Hannah Clothier Hull, DG 016, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
From 1914 to 1919 Hannah Clothier Hull was the chairman of the Pennsylvania branch of the Woman's Peace Party.
Hull served as an officer of the U.S. section of the WILPF from 1924 to 1939 and as the honorary president until her death in 1958.
Hull's interest in women's rights is represented by items on woman suffrage, correspondence on WILPF relations with the National Council of Women of the United States, and material on women's movements in China and India.
www.swarthmore.edu /Library/peace/DG001-025/DG016HCHull.html   (628 words)

  
 Historic Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley - by Dorothy DeBisschop - page54 - Oxford Past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Isaac Hull was born March 9, 1773 in the Town of Derby, the son of Joseph and Sarah Bennett Hull.
Hull remained with his uncle for a year in Newton, Massachusetts.
Hull was landed, without a ship or any money at the Port of Martinique.
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 Derby, CT - Commodore Hull Road Race
Isaac Hull was born in Derby in 1773.
When the new United States Navy was created in 1798, Isaac Hull was appointed a lieutenant on one of the four ships built for the new navy.
Hull had used his heavier broadsides and his ship’s superior sailing ability, while the British, to their astonishment, saw that their shot seemed to rebound harmlessly off Constitution’s hull — giving her the nickname 'Old Ironsides'.
electronicvalley.org /Derby/HullRace/commodorehull.htm   (261 words)

  
 Hull Family Association - Home
The Hull Family Association (HFA) is a non-profit association, organized in October 1985 by a small group of Hull* descendants from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Colorado to develop, preserve, and exchange information on Hull history and genealogy in the United States.
Hull Family Group Sheets from Britain and Canada in HFA Database: From Phyllis Hughes, HFA Genealogist – We are gradually building up quite a collection of British and Canadian Hulls in our HFA database.
Query #056 – Isaac Hull–Lancaster Co., PA–Butler Co., OH: I’d like to know the relationship, if any, between Isaac Hull, the man being taxed in Lancaster Co., PA in the 1760s, and my 3rd great grandfather, Isaac Hull, who was b.
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 The Valley United Way has introduced a new leadership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Commodore Hull was a native of the Valley; having lived in both Derby and Shelton.
Hull won enduring fame as the commander of the battleship U.S.S. Constitution, nicknamed "Old Ironsides", during the War of 1812.
You are cordially invited to join the current Members of the Commodore Isaac Hull Society, thus setting an example for all to recognize and emulate.
www.valleyunitedway.org /hull.htm   (461 words)

  
 Military.com Content
Isaac Hull and the frigate Constitution seemed destined to be linked.
In 1794, the Connecticut native had given up his ambition to be a merchant seaman only to find his uncle, Gen. William Hull, had secured a commission for him aboard the Constitution.
In July 1812, Hull saved the Constitution when the ship was surrounded by five British warships, including the Guerriere.
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Hull was the youngest faculty member at Swarthmore College when he was appointed Associate Professor of History and Economics in 1892.
Hull was also a Director of the World Peace Foundation, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society, and was a frequent lecturer for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Hull supported provisions for conscientious objection to the draft during World War I, and his testimony before Congress in 1928 against a bill to expand the U.S. Navy in 1928 was the subject of much public controversy, including opposition to him from the Daughters of the American Revolution and veterans groups.
www.swarthmore.edu /library/friends/ead/5069hull.xml   (3181 words)

  
 "Aye, Captain!" — Old Ironsides' Isaac Hull
Captain Isaac Hull was 39 in August of 1812.
When Hull's men were relieved at their posts, they dropped and slept where they lay.
In two extraordinary days, outnumbered five to one, Hull and the Constitution had won a battle of wits with the enemy.
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 44 Fairport's Link to the War of 1812   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Isaac Hull, captain of the USS Constituion, is a celebrated hero of the War of 1812.
Army Captain William Hull tried in vain to convince his fellow Yale graduate Nathan Hale that going behind enemy lines in disguise was too risky, possibly leading to execution.
General Sir Isaac Brock, acting lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, was soon at the gates, demanding unconditional surrender.
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 HOME
Five ships bear the name of Commodore Isaac Hull, the first of which was USS Commodore Hull followed by four Destroyers: DD-7, DD-330, DD-350, and DD-945.
To become a sponsor for one of the deceased/survivor members of ships: Hull, Spence or Monaghan, click the chosen ship name, choose a crew member, write down his name and return to index.
The mission of the USS Hull Association is to promote fellowship amongst shipmates who served on any U. Navy Destroyer named HULL through a periodic reunion of the membership, publication of news of interest to the membership through newsletters, and an up to date website.
www.usshullassociation.org   (316 words)

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