Fortitude (1842 ship)

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

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.

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History

Fortitude first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1842. [1]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource & notes
1842BuckhamTindallsScarborough–LondonLR

Migrants to South Australia

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

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1844BuckhamTindallsScarborough–London
London–Ceylon
LR
1845Buckham
Christmas
TindallsLondon–CeylonLR
1847TindallsLondonLR

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] [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2]

Subsequent trade

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource & notes
1850ChristmasTindallsLondonLR
1851ChristmasTindallsLondon–Bombay LR
1852Christmas
Heyward
TindallsLondon–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]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource & notes
1853HeywardTindallsPortsmouth–Port PhillipLR
1856HarrisonTindallsLondonLR
1857HarrisonTindallsLondon–CeylonLR
1859RodgersTindallsLondonLR; small repairs 1858
1861ParsonsTindallsLondon–CeylonLR; small repairs 1858, 1859, & 1861
1862Parsons
J.Booth
Tindalls
R.Guy
London–CeylonLR; small repairs 1858, 1859, & 1861

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

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource & notes
1863J.BoothR.GuyNewry–United StatesLR; 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 Migrants at dinner on the Fortitude, circa 1848.jpg
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. 1 2 3 LR (1842), Supple. pages "F".
  2. 1 2 3 4 LR 1863), Seq.No.F283.
  3. "Immigration to South Australia – Shipping Lists 1836 to 1890: Overseas arrivals to South Australia – 1842". localwiki. Adelaide Hills. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  4. 1 2 "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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