1850

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• The vessel True Blue, laden with a cargo of flour, believed lost with all hands on the Ve Skerries early in the year.
• The vessel Jane (1850), laden with a cargo of flour, of Montreal, Canada persumed wrecked on the Ve Skerries early in the year
• The forepart of am unidentified vessel, thought to have been a Dutch Buss reported ashore at Fitful Head, Dunrossness. No other information concerning the fate of this vessel is known.

March

• The vessel Catherine (1850) wrecked on Papa Stour.

April

• 1st
  The Herrings, of North shields, England wrecked at an unspecified location in Dunrossness.

June

• The cod fishing sloop Wasp of Lerwick foundered with the loss of all fourteen crew at an unknown location to the north of Foula.

October

• 21st
  Leonard Lyell, Mp for Orkney and Shetland, was born.

November

• 4th
  The Lark (1850) of Lerwick in passage from Mid Yell to Lerwick wrecked on the "Holmes Rocks" (probably either the Holm of Beosetter or the Holm of Gunnista) near Beosetter at Aith Voe, Bressay with the loss of all three crew.
• 7th
  Vessel Brothers wrecked at Uyeasound.

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