1720
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Robert Bruce (1), third Laird Bruce of Symbister, married his cousin Margaret, daughter of Robert Bruce of Chalester.
December
- 10th
An unidentified galliot, 100 tons, registered in Bergen, Norway,and laden with a cargo of iron, steel and tar, wrecked at Voe in Olna Firth. - 17th
The Kirkcomell, a full rigged ship of and for Dumfries, Scotland, from New York, U.S.A. with a cargo of timber (deals), parted from or dragged anchor in Bressay Sound and wrecked on the west coast of Bressay.
