1758
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- First Post office contract for a regular packet service between Leith and Lerwick.
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January
- 4th
Anna Catherina, a smack, foundered in the vicinity of the isle of Mousa, Sandwick.
February
- 8th
A large vessel laden with a cargo of timber, presumed wrecked or foundered on or near the west side of Dunrossness, after a large amount of wreckage washed ashore in the vicinity of Rerwick.
May
- 6th
The Isabel of Leith, Caddel master, left Leith for the first run under the new Post office contract.
December
- 12th
Poet Margaret Chalmers was born.
