1933
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Lone Swedish voyager, Anna Cederblom, arrived in Lerwick from Bergen, Norway en route to Faroe, in her 14.5 foot decked, outboard motor propelled boat. Sadly she was lost on the return voyage. Pictures can be viewed here.
- The vessel Thistle went ashore at an unspecified location on Shetland during or before 1933. Believed to have been subsequently refloated, but her eventual fate is not recorded.
- Hugh MacDiarmid moves to Whalsay.
March
20th
- The Dove (BF871), a steam fishing drifter of Portknockie, Buckie, Scotland was destroyed by fire in Dales Voe on either this date, or on the same date in 1934 (the availble records are in dispute).
April
18th
- First aeroplane to land in Shetland, lands at Sumburgh Links, a de Havilland 'Moth' with four passengers.
May
- RNLI Lifeboat station at Aith established.
The first lifeboat was the K.T.J.S., a Watson class, 45' 6" single petrol engined non-self-righting boat, built in 1926 by A. Saunders of Cowes, at a cost of £8330.
This boat had previously been the lifeboat at Longhope, Orkney. The name was made up of the initial letters of the surnames of the donors of the building cost.
19th
A vessel, registered in Lerwick, and sketchily identified witin the record as the River Nile (LK384), sank after striking a rock in Whale Firth, Yell.
August
- Charles Lindbergh and his wife arrived Lerwick in a seaplane during their survey of the North Atlantic air route.
September
- 18th
Britains largest flying-boat arrives in Lerwick. It was a "Short Sarafand S 1589", (120 ft, 30 tons), seaplane which arrived Lerwick Monday 18th September, 1933, at 4.30 p.m. and departed Thursday 21st September, 1933, at 10.30 p.m.
November
- 7th
Election of the Lerwick Town Council. Charlotte Nicol becomes the first female councillor in Shetland's history.
