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| | Fortitude; Sailing Ship; Australia; Moreton Bay; |
 | | Far and wide throughout the land went the Fortitude's immigrants; they were the means of giving Brisbane a start from a small village to its present dimensions, and many an industrious country centre owes its origin to men who came in the Fortitude with nothing but their indomitable perseverance and stoutness of heart. |
 | | Fortitude Valley, lying about one mile eastward from North Brisbane, Morton Bay, was so named by a Mr Roper, who was a passenger per ship "Fortitude", the first of three ships dispatched with emigrants from London to Morton Bay, by Dr Lang of Sydney, in the year 1849. |
 | | Of the ship Fortitude, he stated that 266 souls landed; the number known to have left, and who never returned was 40; the number who remained included Mr J Roper and wife, of Tenterfield, was 21;: the number now known to be alive 72; ditto, dead, 89; the number whose condition was unknown was 54. |
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