Fortitude
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Fortitude meaning courage or bravery is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.
Fortitude may also refer to:
Ships
- HMS Fortitude, a list of Royal Navy ships and installations
- Fortitude (ship), a sailing ship that carried free immigrants to Australia in 1849
- ST Fortitude, an Admiralty tugboat in service from 1947 to 1962
- HMS Fortitude (1780), a 74-gun third rate launched in 1780
- HMS Cumberland (1807) or HMS Fortitude, a convict ship launched as a 74-gun third rate
- USS Fortitude (AMc-81), a United States Accentor-class minesweeper
Places
- Fortitude Valley, Queensland, a section of Brisbane
Art, entertainment, and media
- Fortitude (Botticelli), a painting
- Fortitude (play), a 1968 short work by Kurt Vonnegut
- Fortitude (TV series), a 2015 British drama television series
- Patience and Fortitude, the lion sculptures flanking the entrance to the Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library
Sports
- Fortitude Valley Diehards, an Australian rugby league football club
Other uses
- Operation Fortitude, a World War II deception operation
See also
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