1773

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• Horatio Nelson, later Lord Nelson, vistied Shetland while a midshipman with Phipps tour of the Arctic.
• The vessel John and Mary, laden with timber, of and for Whitby, England from Memel, Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania), wrecked on South Havra either during March or on February 11th. All of the crew were lost.

October

• 3rd
  The immigration ship Batchelor of Leith, Master Alexander Ramage, bound for Wilmington NC, had to seek shelter from a storm in Vaila Sound. The ship were damaged, and the 204 passangers wintered in Vaila Sound.
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