1778

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January

• 16th
  The vessel Elizabeth (1778), with a mixed cargo of flax, staves and linseed, of and for Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, from Memel, Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania), wrecked at 'Meal'. It has not known whether 'Meal' refers to Meal Beach or the Sands of Mail.

August

• 24th
  An unidentified sailing sloop, laden with a cargo of lime, caught fire and was beached at an unspecified loaction at Lerwick. It is understood she became a total loss.

September

• 8th
  George Heneage Laurence Dundas, MP for Orkney and Shetland, was born.

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