1813
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- The Shetland trader Doris is lost off Cruden Bay, while making her return trip from Leith, as immortalised by Dorothea Primrose Campbell in her poem 'Lines written on a stormy night'
January
- 29th
The Cecilia, a sail schooner laden with a mixed cargo of cotton, meal and potatoes, of Lerwick, wrecked at an unrecorded location on West Burra.
April
- The Government purchased and conveyed grain and potatoes for the relief of Shetland at a cost of £1,987 18s. 2d.
August
- 1st
The Alert, a brigantine laden with a cargo of pitch and tar, of Peterhead, Scotland, is recorded as having been "taken and burnt" at an unidentified position "between Faroe and Shetland".
October
- An unidentified, English registered vessel is recorded as having wrecked on the west side of Fora Ness, Sandsting.
November
- 15th
Robert Bruce (2), sixth Laird Bruce of Symbister, married, (second), Helen, daughter of Robert Wallace.
