1994
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Formation of Shetland Farm Dairies Ltd
- A further crash in oil prices with Brent Blend reaching a mere $13 a barrel. That put 1994 oil prices, on average, about the same in real terms as those before the first oil crisis in 1973.
April
- 12th
Bonhoga Gallery opens at Weisdale Mill - 18th
C.J. (Clement) Williamson, photographer and author, died in Scalloway, aged 90. - 25th
North Atlantic Fisheries College officially opened.
May
- 8th
Election of the Shetland Islands Council. Notably, this election saw Tavish Scott elected as a councillor. Scott would later go on to be an MSP and the leader of the Scottish Lib Dems. - 14th
Unst Boat Haven officially opened by Robert J. Anderson, of the SIC's department of Leisure and Recreation.
June
- 22nd or 24th
Burra Isle registered fishing boat Adonis (LK172) sinks approx 60 miles WNW of Foula after an engine room fire. The five crewmen are picked up from a liferaft.
July
- 7th
Poet Rhoda Bulter dies. - 10th
The Nickellyn (FR62), a motor fishing vessel, of Fraserburgh, Scotland, sank at a position approx 55 miles SSE of Sumburgh Head.
October
- 16th
The Seaward Quest (BF377), a steel hulled motor fishing trawler, of Banff, Scotland sank at a position approx 52 miles west of Papa Stour. All of the crew were saved. - 31st
Russian klondyker Pionersk wrecked on Ness of Trebister. Lerwick Lifeboat and Coastguard helicopter rescue all 155 crew.
November
- 5th
The old Mull of Eswick Lighthouse was destroyed when a large part of the cliff collapsed into the sea.
