1872

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• William Guthrie's Truck Commission visits Shetland, and asks 17,000 questions about the system of truck used in Shetland fisheries and the hosiery indistries.
• Lerwick Methodist Church was built.
• Education Act Scotland.

Contents 1 March 2 June 3 September 4 October 5 November 6 December

March

• 16th
  Four crewmen of the Isabella (1872), a brig, laden with a cargo of coal, of Montrose, Scotland, from Tayport, Fife, Scotland and for Copenhagen, Denmark, which had foundered at an unknown position five days previously, were picked up from their small boat by a passing smack to the east of Foula.

June

• The Shetland Times established.
• 17th
  Second Truck Commission Report presented to House of Commons

September

• 19th or 21st
  The Miranda, a smack, laden with a cargo of fish, of Lerwick, from Voe, wrecked in the West Voe, Papa Stour.

October

• 2nd
  The Turqouise (LK29), a fishing cutter, of Lerwick, from the Faroe fishing grounds, wrecked on the Ve Skerries. All of the crew were lost.
• 26th
  Frederick Dundas, MP for Orkney and Shetland died.

November

• 5th
  Ian B. S. Holbourn born.

December

• 9th
  Adam Halcrow, author, born in Cunningsburgh

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