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USS BULL (DE-693/APD-78)
Named for Lieutenant (jg)
Richard Bull, b. 14 July 1914, New York City, NY;
KIA 5 February 1942, Netherlands East Indies when Japanese planes
bombed
Allied shipping; posthumous DFC
Type: TE
Builder: DBC
Keel laid 12/15/42
Launched 03/25/43
Commissioned 08/12/43
First CO: Lt D. W. Farnham (1)
Redesignated 07/31/44
Decommissioned 06/05/47; three battle stars
Stricken 06/15/66
To Taiwan as LU SHAN 07/12/66
Still serving Taiwan in 1995
From
the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster.
March 2006
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