1906

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January

  • Death of County Councillor, Z. M. Hamilton
  • 12th January to 8th February 1906
    General Election, won by Cathcart Wason (Liberal)
  • 15th
    The Dione, an iron or steel hulled brigantine or schooner, of Sweden, laden with a cargo of timber from Elsinore/Helsingør, Denmark for "Tanajona"??, wrecked at the Voe of Dale, Walls. Of the seven crew only two survived, four perished during the wreck, and one of the three originally rescued, did not survive the aftermath.

April

June

July

  • 19th
    A severe gale, the worst July gale since 1881, caused damage to the fishing fleet. 10 lives were lost
    The Lerwick owned wooden fishing smack Olive Leaf wrecked near Ulsta, Yell, and the Fife, Scotland owned wooden fishing lugger Puritan wrecked on the Green Holm, north of Bressay.
  • 30th
    Telegraph link established between Shetland and Faroe.

September

  • Scalloway waterworks opened.
  • 4th
    The Columbine, believed to have been a smack, wooden hulled, and lying off Albert Wharf, Lerwick Harbour laden with a cargo of stone, was rammed by the S.S. St. Giles of Aberdeen, Scotland and quickly sank.
  • 7th
    Herring industry hold a meeting to protest against the whale fishing in Shetland which is assumed to be cause of poor herring landings.
  • 21st
    Catherine Spence, author and teacher dies in Yell

October

November

December

  • 16th
    The Nordwind or North Wind, a steel hulled barque laden with a cargo of dressed timber and bagged cement, of Hamburg, Germany, from Gothenburg, Sweden for Melbourne, Australia struck rocks and broke up on Out Skerries. Seventeen of the crew were saved, but the Captain, carpenter and boy were lost. Much of her cargo of timber was salvaged by the locals and used for construction.


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