1908
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Outer Skerry Lighthouse lit for first time.
- Park Hall was built.
- The last locally owned and unaltered sailing smack to persecute the fishery at Faroe, the William Martin owned by Nicolson & Co. was sold to Faroese owners. The Buttercup owned by Hay & Co. did remain, but converted in to a herring drifter, with the ability to cure her catch onboard.
February
- 24th
Poet T.P.Ollason died.
March
- 23rd
The wooden hulled steam powered fishing vessel Consolation caught fire while moored near Holmsgarth in Lerwick Harbour, burned to the waterline and sank.
April
- 25th
The wooden hulled lugger Jessies, carrying a cargo of shingle, broke from moorings in Bressay Sound and foundered at a position approx 0.25 miles W of the Loofa Baa.
July
- New Masonic Hall inaugurated.
August
- 3rd
The Pearl a Lerwick registered dandy fishing vessel, sank after being in collision with the Banff, Scotland registered fishing vessel Comet Star (BF16). - 12th
The Duke Of Portland a wooden hulled sailing smack, sank at Lerwick, after being in collision with both the Glasgow, Scotland registered sailing vessel St. Mungo and the Lowestoft, Suffolk, England registered sailing vessel Good Friend.
November
- 23rd
Formation, in Lerwick of The Shetland Sheepdog Club with the aim of creating a breed standard.
Provost Porteus was the first President and Mr James A Loggie the Hon Secretary.
"At a meeting held in the Country Hall, Lerwick, recently a club for the Shetland Collie was formed, and its list of patrons is a formidable one. Provost Porteous presided over the meeting and Lady Marjorie Sinclair, Mr. Cathcart Wason, M.P., Sir Arthur Nicolson, Mrs. Moffat, and Mr. Bruce were appointed patrons. Provost Porteous was made President, and the Rev. A.J.Campbell Vice President, while Baillie Laing is Chairman of Committee. Mr. J.A.Loggie is Treasurer and Secretary. Lady Marjorie Sinclair is, as everyone knows, a daughter of the Countess of Aberdeen, and has been a doggy enhusiast since her childhood. Mr. Wason, who represents Shetland in Parliament, has taken a keen and personal interest in the Shetland Collie controversy, and is no mere figurehead. There is something peculiary appropriate that the Shetland Collie Club should be formed in Lerwick, and, despite the weight of the opposition to the Shetlander as a show dog, there are surely few breeds that have got such an auspicious send-off in the matter of their specialist Club. Sassenachs beware!" - from Collie Folio 1909.
