1897
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Muckle Roe Lighthouse was first lit.
- Fishing disaster at Fair Isle, 8 men lost, leaving 4 widows and 24 dependents. One boat returns with only the skipper alive, the two crew dead from exposure.
- A vessel neamed the Flosta is recorded as having wrecked at an unspecified location on or near Shetland during or before 1897.
April
- 13th
The Annie Bruce (PD239), a Peterhead, Scotland owned wooden hulled fishing lugger foundered and sank with the loss of all hands approx 3 miles SSW of Bressay Lighthouse either on this date, or on the same date in 1898 (the available records are in dispute).
May
- 6th
The Sacre Coeur (G325), a wooden hulled fishing lugger, of Gravelines, France, wrecked in St Ninian's Bay, Bigton. All of the crew were saved.
July
- 3rd
William Arthur Bruce (2), ninth Laird Bruce of Symbister, married Elizabeth Mitchell Sinclair, younger daughter of Andrew John Grierson of Quendale. - 27th
Gilbertson Park in Lerwick was opened by Robert Gilbertson.
August
- 6th
Samuel Laing, MP for Orkney and Shetland, died.
September
- 14th
The Petrel a Lerwick registered, Voe owned wooden hulled sailing smack wrecked on Muckle Roe.
November
- 2nd
Election of the Lerwick Town Council.
