The Fortitude
History
United Kingdom
NameFortitude
BuilderTindall, Scarborough
Launched1842
FateWrecked circa 1866
General characteristics
Class and typeBarque
Tons burthen
  • Old Act: 519[2] (bm)
  • New Act (post 1836): 608,[1] 640,[2] or 750 (bm)
Length127 ft 5 in (38.8 m)[1]
Beam27 ft 0 in (8.2 m)[1]
Depth20 ft 7 in (6.3 m)[1]

Fortitude was a barque launched at Scarborough in 1842. In the 1840s she brought free settlers to the colonies of South Australia and Queensland. Thereafter she sailed to India and China, and made one more voyage carrying female immigrants to Port Phillip. She was wrecked circa 1866.

History

Fortitude first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1842.[2]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1842 Buckham Tindalls Scarborough–London LR

Migrants to South Australia

Fortitude, Captain James Douglas, arrived in South Australia on 5 April 1842, bringing 27 free settlers to Adelaide.[3]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1844 Buckham Tindalls Scarborough–London
London–Ceylon 		LR
1845 Buckham
Christmas 		Tindalls London–Ceylon LR
1847 Tindalls London LR

Migrants to Queensland

In 1848–9, she was the first of three ships chartered by the Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang to bring free immigrants to Brisbane, Australia, arriving on 21 January 1849.[4] Captained by John Christmas, with the medical superintendent Henry Challinor, she departed Gravesend on 14 September 1848 and arrived at Moreton Bay on 21 January 1849.[5][6][7][a][b]

Subsequent trade

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1850 Christmas Tindalls London LR
1851 Christmas Tindalls London–Bombay LR
1852 Christmas
Heyward 		Tindalls London–Ceylon
Portsmouth–Port Phillip 		LR

In 1852–1853, Fortitude. Captain Heyward, carried 50 women to Port Phillip. The women were the 21st party to travel under the auspices of the Female Emigration Fund. Some women who paid their own way also made the journey.[9]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1853 Heyward Tindalls Portsmouth–Port Phillip LR
1856 Harrison Tindalls London LR
1857 Harrison Tindalls London–Ceylon LR
1859 Rodgers Tindalls London LR; small repairs 1858
1861 Parsons Tindalls London–Ceylon LR; small repairs 1858, 1859, & 1861
1862 Parsons
J.Booth 		Tindalls
R.Guy 		London–Ceylon LR; small repairs 1858, 1859, & 1861

With the change of ownership from Tidalls to Guy, Fortitude's homeport changed from Sunderland to Newry.

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1863 J.Booth R.Guy Newry–United States LR; small repairs 1858, 1859, & 1861

Fate

In 1865 Fortitude, Booth, master, sailed to Toulon, then Singapore, and back to London. There is no readily available ship arrival and departure data after her return in November 1865. A typhoon drove a barque named Fortitude ashore at Kowloon, damaging her. At this point it is a conjecture that the barque in Kowloon was the Fortitude of this article.

LR for 1866 carried the annotation "Wrecked" under Fortitude's name.[10]

Notable immigrants on the Fortitude

South Australia

Brisbane

Migrants at dinner on the Fortitude, circa 1848

Notes

  1. ^ Fortitude Valley, where many of the 1849 immigrants settled and is now a suburb of Brisbane, is named in her honour.[8]
  2. ^ The other ships were Chaseley, arriving on 1 May 1849, and Lima, arriving on 3 November 1849.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d LR 1863), Seq.No.F283.
  2. ^ a b c LR (1842), Supple. pages "F".
  3. ^ "Immigration to South Australia – Shipping Lists 1836 to 1890: Overseas arrivals to South Australia – 1842". localwiki. Adelaide Hills. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Dr John Dunmore Lang Sponsored Immigrant Ships". Brisbane History. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Some Interesting Snippets about the Fortitude". Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  6. ^ "A Super Six Hundred. On this occasion 253 passengers were transported". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 21 July 1928. p. 21. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. ^ "THE Moreton Bay Courier". The Moreton Bay Courier. Vol. III, no. 138. Queensland, Australia. 3 February 1849. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Brisbane Fortitude Valley, Chinatown". Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  9. ^ "DOMESTIC". Royal Cornwall Gazette (Truro, England), 5 March 1852, issue 2541, p. 2.
  10. ^ LR (1866), Seq.No.F298.

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