Fortitude (1842 ship)

Thereafter she sailed to India and China, and made one more voyage carrying female immigrants to Port Phillip.

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

[3] 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.

[4] 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.

A typhoon drove a barque named Fortitude ashore at Kowloon, damaging her.

Migrants at dinner on the Fortitude, circa 1848