1907

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  • The first introduction of the Blue Hare into Shetland
  • The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman first established the Fishermen's Mission in Shetland at the Old Tolbooth
  • First motor garage in Shetland opens in Lerwick

February

  • 7th
    The Lerwick wooden fishing lugger Blossom sank near Score Head, Bressay following a collison with the Lerwick fishing lugger Maggie Helen.

May

  • 29th
    The Marec (A148), an Aberdeen, Scotland owned and registered steel hulled steam fishing trawler grounded and was wrecked on Hoevdi Grund, Foula.

June

  • 9th
    The Jean Baptiste, a French registered wooden hulled fishing sloop struck floating debris and sank at a position approx 6 miles SE of Foula.
  • 11th
    The Hirondel (G 340), a French registered wooden hulled fishing lugger was wrecked in St Ninian's Bay, Bigton.

July

  • New Lerwick fish market opened.
  • 2nd
    The Parvaim (BF 403), a Banff, Scotland registered wooden hulled steam fishing trawler, foundered and sank at a position approx 0.5 miles NW of the Bard of Bressay, following a collision with the Great Yarmouth, England steam herring drifter Twenty-Eight.
  • 4th
    John Bruce (4) dies in Edinburgh.

October

December

  • 4th
    Author E. O'H. Milne was born.
  • 20th
    Official opening of the Dunrossness Central Public Hall. Built at a cost of £370.


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