Fortitude (1842 ship)


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 in 1842.
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.
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. 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

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.
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, Fortitudes 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 Fortitudes name.

Notable immigrants on the ''Fortitude''

South Australia

Brisbane