1817
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April
- 4th
Robert Baikie, MP for Shetland and Orkney, died.
June
- 4th/5th
The vessel Margaret and Ann drove ashore at an unspecified location. - The vessel St Johannes (1817) was beached at an unspecified location.
July
- 21st
Four men from Sandness drowned whilst fishing in St Magnus Bay. They were Laurence Thomson of Collaster, Anthony Gabrielson or Jamieson of Houll, Jerome Moffat of Norby, and Robert Fraser of Windyhill.
August
- Over a period of two months, the French philospher Jean Baptiste Biot conducts experiments to determine the variation in the length of the second's pendulum at the home of Thomas Edmondston, Buness, Unst.
November
- 5th
The Caroline, a brig laden with a cargo of timber, of and from Copenhagen, Denmark, and for Malaga, Spain wrecked on the Ness of Trebister. All of the crew were lost. - 9th
The Helmsley a wooden hulled brig laden with a cargo of flax and tallow, of Bridlington, England from Archangel, Russia for London, England wrecked at Sand Wick. One crewmember was lost. - 13th
The Belvidera of Copenhagen, Denmark wrecked at Dunrossness. - 15th
The Christopher, a brig laden with a mixed cargo, of Whitby England, from Riga, Latvia and for Liverpool, England wrecked near Tros Wick, Dunrossness. All of the crew were lost
- The Li La Too Zee, in ballast from Maasluis, The Netherlands for Northern Faeroe wrecked on Fair Isle. Only the mate and one crewman were saved.
- The Camperdown, a full rigged ship laden with a mixed cargo, registered in the United Kingdom, and believed from the Baltic wrecked near Sumburgh Head. All of the crew were lost
