1806
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Papa Stour Kirk was built.
- Robert Honyman re-elected as MP for Orkney & Shetland.
June
- 16th
The Elizabeth and Ann, a full rigged ship, was lost N of Shetland.
December
- An unidentified vessel wrecked in the Bay of Quendale, all of the crew were saved.
- 15th
The George Washington (1806), a barque with mixed cargo, of and for Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A. from Danzig (now Gdansk), Poland and/or Hamburg, Germany, wrecked in the East Voe of Quarff in foggy conditions. - A 'large vessel', laden with a cargo of timber, but otherwise unidentified, recorded as having been 'dashed to pieces', 'to the north of Clumlie', Dunrossness.
- 25th
The Thetis, a brig with mixed cargo, of Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, for Liverpool, England from St Petersburg, Russia, wrecked on either Balta or Burra.
