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.

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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.

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