1745

Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia

• An unidentified vessel, laden with a cargo of fish, is recorded as having stranded at Fitful Head, Dunrossness.

January

• 12th
  Swedish East Indiaman, Drotningen af Swerige (Queen of Sweden), wrecked in Lerwick harbour.
  Swedish East Indiaman Stockholm wrecked in Dunrossness.

April

• 30th
  Robert Douglas, MP of Orkney and Shetland, dies.

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