1786
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- An unidentified vessel wrecked at Vats Wick, Heoga Ness, Yell.
April
- 10th
Thomas Dundas, MP for Orkney and Shetland, dies.
November
- The Sampson, a sloop, of Glasgow, Scotland for Iceland, grounded on Fair Isle, was refloated and anchored in the Bay of Quendale, Dunrossness, but subsequently drove from anchor there and eventually wrecked on Foula.
December
- An unidentified sloop is recorded as having wrecked on Foula, however there is some suggestion that the event may have occured earlier, during the 17th Century.
