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.

History

Voyage details

Fortitude arrived in South Australia captained by James Douglas on 5 April 1842, bringing 27 free settlers to Adelaide.
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, arriving Moreton Bay on 21 January 1849.
Fortitude Valley, where many of the 1849 immigrants settled and now a suburb of Brisbane, is named in her honour.

Notable immigrants on the ''Fortitude''

South Australia