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Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- The Hogarth drove ashore during a gale and wrecked on Out Skerries. Possibly in the vicinity of Easter Skerries.
- An unidentified fishing vessel is recorded as having wrecked at an unspecified location in Dunrossness.
March
- 6th
James Scott R.N. born at Melby, Sandness
October
- 29th
The Industry, a sloop, of Lerwick, drove ashore behind the Old Tolbooth, Lerwick. All of the crew were saved.
