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Name | Fortitude |
Builder | Calcutta |
Launched | 1804 |
Fate | Lost circa 1812. |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 477,[1] or 47740⁄94[2] or 480,[3] or 500 (bm) |
Armament | 1810:4 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 9-pounder carronades |
Notes | Teak-built |
Fortitude was launched at Calcutta in 1804. In 1806 she carried Chinese labourers to Trinidad for the British East India Company; she was seized in Trinidad, sold, and sailed to England. From 1808 on she was a West Indiaman. She was lost circa 1812.
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