Fortitude (ship)

Fortitude was a type of sailing ship known as a barque, which brought free settlers to the colonies of Queensland and South Australia in the 1840s.

The Fortitude
History
Name: Fortitude
Builder: Tindall, Scarborough
Launched: 1842
General characteristics
Class and type: Barque
Tons burthen: 608 tons, 640 tons, or 750 tons burthen.[1]

History

Voyage details

Fortitude arrived in South Australia captained by James Douglas on 5 April 1842, bringing 27 free settlers to Adelaide.[2]

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.[3] Captained by John Christmas, with the medical superintendent Henry Challinor, she departed Gravesend on 14 September 1848, arriving Moreton Bay on 21 January 1849.[1][4][5] (The other ships were Chaseley, arriving on 1 May 1849, and Lima, arriving on 3 November 1849.[3])

Fortitude Valley, where many of the 1849 immigrants settled and now a suburb of Brisbane, is named in her honour.[6]

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
Migrants at dinner on the Fortitude, circa 1848

References
  1. "Some Interesting Snippets about the Fortitude". Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  2. "Immigration to South Australia – Shipping Lists 1836 to 1890: Overseas arrivals to South Australia – 1842". localwiki. Adelaide Hills. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  3. "Dr John Dunmore Lang Sponsored Immigrant Ships". Brisbane History. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  4. "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.
  5. "THE Moreton Bay Courier". The Moreton Bay Courier. III (138). Queensland, Australia. 3 February 1849. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "Brisbane Fortitude Valley, Chinatown". Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  • "A Super Six Hundred". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 21 July 1928. p. 21. — more information on the three immigrant ships, including passenger lists
  • "Passenger List" (PDF).


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