HMS Fortitude

Two ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fortitude:

Ships

• HMS Fortitude was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1780. She became a prison ship in 1795, a powder hulk in 1802 and was broken up in 1820.
• HMS Fortitude was a convict ship launched in 1807 as the 74-gun third rate HMS Cumberland. She became a convict ship in 1830, was renamed Fortitude in 1833 and was sold in 1870.

Shore establishments

• HMS Fortitude was the naval base at Ardrossan, commissioned in 1940 and paid off in 1945.
  • HMS Fortitude II was the Coastal Forces base at Ardrossan, commissioned in 1941. The base was on the navy list in 1944, but not in 1942.

See also

• A fictional HMS Fortitude appears in Set the Seas on Fire by Chris Roberson
• Fortitude, a ship that transported immigrants to Brisbane in 1848-9, for which Fortitude Valley is named