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.LR (1842), Supple. pages "F".
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.
Year Master Owner Trade Source 1844 Buckham Tindalls Scarborough–LondonLondon–Ceylon LR 1845 BuckhamChristmas 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. 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.
Subsequent trade Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes 1850 Christmas Tindalls London LR 1851 Christmas Tindalls London–Bombay LR 1852 ChristmasHeyward Tindalls London–CeylonPortsmouth–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."DOMESTIC". Royal Cornwall Gazette (Truro, England), 5 March 1852, issue 2541, p. 2.
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 ParsonsJ.Booth TindallsR.Guy London–Ceylon LR; small repairs 1858, 1859, & 1861
With the change of ownership from Tidalls to Guy, Fortitudes 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 Fortitudes name.LR (1866), Seq.No.F298.
Notable immigrants on the Fortitude South Australia W.P. Auld, Adelaide vigneron and explorer James Philcox, land speculator who named two villages (now suburbs) in Adelaide
Brisbane
Henry Challinor, physician and politician of Ipswich Robert Cribb, politician of Brisbane William Pettigrew, politician and mayor of Brisbane Edward Barton Southerden, draper and mayor of Sandgate
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— more information on the three immigrant ships, including passenger lists