A. H. Bull Steamship Company

A. H. Bull Steamship Company
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryShipping, transportation, passenger liners
Founded1902 (1902) in New York, United States
Defunct1964
Area served
Atlantic Ocean shores
Key people
Archibald Hilton Bull
Ernest Miller Bull
Edward Mryon Bull

A. H. Bull Steamship Company was a shipping company and passenger liner service founded in New York City in 1902 by Archibald H. Bull (1848-1920). Service started with shipping between New York and Florida. His fleet of ships then added service to other Eastcoast ports. The company is also often called the Bull Lines and the Bull Steamship Line or A. H. Bull & Company. While founded in New York, Bull soon move its headquarter to Peir 5 in Baltimore, Maryland. Bull Lines main Eastcoast ports were: Baltimore, Charleston, Philadelphia, Tampa and Norfolk, Virginia. Oversea ports: Porto Rico, Antwerp, Bordeaux, Hamburg, Bremen, Copenhagen, and West Africa. Bull Steamship Line supported the US war effort for both World War I and World War II, including the loss of ships.[1]

Baltimore Carolina Steamship Company, subsidiary of Bull Lines, timetable from 1924
Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company Building, subsidiary of Bull Lines in 1904, at Pratt and Light Streets Baltimore, MD. Steamboat Company Building was not damaged by the fire nearby.
Crew and pay rate chart of Bull Line cargo ships SS Eva and SS Jean in 1911
  1. ^ "House Flags of U.S. Shipping Companies: B". www.crwflags.com.