Fortitude (1780 EIC ship)
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Fortitude was a merchant vessel built in 1780 on the River Thames. A French frigate captured her in 1782 while she was on the return leg of her maiden voyage to India as an East Indiaman for the Briti
Pitt, near Dover returning from China 1787; National Maritime Museum, Greewich, and based on a painting by Dominic Serres, National Maritime Museum, Greewich
The East Indiaman Pitt of London in two positions in the Channel off the Needles, Isle of Wight (Thomas Whitcombe (London c.1752-1824)
Battle of Porto Praya
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The Battle of Porto Praya was fought on 16 April 1781 during the American Revolutionary War between a Royal Navy fleet under Commodore George Johnstone and a French Navy squadron under Pierre André de
Fortitude (1780 EIC ship)
…under Commodore George Johnstone, who was sailing to capture the Cape Colony. On 16 April the French attacked the British squadron and convoy at the battle of Porto Praya, off São Tiago. The French captured Fortitude, but as her captors towed her out to sea, her crew and the troops of the 92nd Regiment of Foot she was…
1836 painting of the battle
Painting of the battle by Rossel de Cercy