1994
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Formation of Shetland Farm Dairies Ltd
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
- 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.
October
- 16th
The Seaward Quest (BF377), a 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.
