Kingston-Upon-Hull
important English river-port, a parliamentary and municipal borough and county of itself; in the East Riding of Yorkshire on the Humber; here 2 miles wide, and here joined by the Hull. Pop. (1917) 246,- 557. The docks and basins, comprising an area of upward of 200 acres, have been constructed since 1774. Hull was one of the first ports in England to engage in the whale-fishery, an enterprise which has been abandoned; but its fisheries for edible fish employ, in conjunctic with those of Grimsby, large fleets of boats, attended by steam auxiliaries.
Hull is a principal steam-packet station, and ocean steamers ply regularly to many of the principal ports of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Russia, Germany, and Scandinavia. Its home trade is also very extensive. It is the great outlet for the woolen and cotton goods of the midland counties. It is the chief entrepôt for German and Scandinavian oversea trade.