Edmund Mellor

Died 26 September 1872

Captain Edmund Mellor (9‑38‑4)

Captain Mellor, an early immigrant to Moreton Bay, arrived in the colony in January 1849 on the sailing ship Fortitude. In the days when the river trade was the 'lifeline' between Brisbane and Ipswich, he became owner of the river steamers Bremer and Settler. The Louisa, the first iron steamboat ever constructed in the colony of Queensland was built by R.R. Smellie & Co to the order of Captain Mellor. After Mellor's death on 26 September 1872 at the age of 59, the Louisa was used on the Logan-Brisbane run.

Louisa - Queensland's First Iron Steamboat - Queensland State Archives. Cropped.