Fortitude (1842 ship)
The Fortitude
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History | |
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Name | Fortitude |
Builder | Tindall, Scarborough |
Launched | 1842 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Barque |
Tons burthen | 608 tons, 640 tons, or 750 tons burthen.[1] |
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.[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
- 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
References
- ^ a b "Some Interesting Snippets about the Fortitude". Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ "Immigration to South Australia – Shipping Lists 1836 to 1890: Overseas arrivals to South Australia – 1842". localwiki. Adelaide Hills. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ^ a b "Dr John Dunmore Lang Sponsored Immigrant Ships". Brisbane History. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Brisbane Fortitude Valley, Chinatown". Retrieved 2 January 2010.
External links
- "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).