1800

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• Author Catherine Sinclair, daughter of Sir John Sinclair, was born.
• Grobsness Haa, Delting was built.

January

• 6th
  The vessel Mary and Elizabeth, of Shields, England stranded at Uyeasound, Unst.
• 10th
  The Polly, in ballast, of Dover, England, and from Yarmouth, England wrecked at Seli Geo, Bressay. One soul was lost.
• 23rd
  The Columbus (1800), a full rigged ship with mixed grain etc cargo, of and from Danzig (now Gdansk), Poland for Liverpool, England wrecked on Trondra.

February

• 11th
  A boat sailing from Scalloway to Sandness was lost near the Point of Watsness. All 8 men onboard were drowned. Thomas Reid, Garth, Magnus Eunson, Garth, Thomas Thomson, Knockhall, James Fraser, Bousta, Henry Abernethy, Bousta, John Williamson, Bousta, Henry Isbister, Mires, John Thomson, Bousta.

September

• 26th
  The 18 gun Royal Navy sloop Hound, commanded by W. Jas. Turquand, wrecked near Shetland, crew perished.

October

• The Mary (1800), a full rigged ship, laden with a cargo of wheat, of London, England and from Danzig (now Gdansk), Poland wrecked at Cullivoe, Yell. All of the crew were saved.

December

• 19th
  The Elizabeth (1800), a Danish East Indiaman, for St Croix and St Thomas wrecked on the Flaeshens of the Rumble, Whalsay with the loss of all hands.

1799<->1801