1978

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• Hom Bru start playing. The band lineup is, Garie Peterson, Davie Henry, Brian Nicholson, and Alec Johnson.
• Sumburgh Airport recorded it's busiest year, with 685,000 passengers and 51,000 aircraft movements.

January

• 6th
  Thomas Fraser dies aged 50.
• 31st
  Lerwick Up Helly-Aa.

March

• 30th
  The vessel Trygg wrecked at Foula.

June

• 24th
  Lerwick Midsummer Carnival.

August

• 15th
  Scatsta Airport officially re-opened by Mrs F. Hunter of Scatsta Farm.
• 24th
  Author Annie Deyell died.

September

• 12th
  New Arrun class lifeboat Soldian, named in a ceremony performed by The Duke of Kent

October

New Whalsay purse net fishing boat 'Antares', costing £1 million, arrives.

November

• 25th
  First oil comes ashore at Sullom Voe Oil Terminal from the Shell Dunlin field.

• 30th
  First oil is exported from the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal on board the Shell tanker "Donovania"

December

• 30th
  Following a collision with No.2 jetty while berthing, 1174 tonnes of heavy fuel oil was spilled from the tanker, Esso Bernicia.

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