1848

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• Potato Blight
• 1,400 barrels herring caught between 20th June & 8th July at Scalloway

January

• 7th
  Neptune (1848) wrecked at Noustaness, Fetlar.

February

• 21st
  Arthur Anderson addressed Parliament on the deficiency of coastal lights on Shetland. He reported that in the period between the end of December and February 12th, Lloyd's books had recorded 14 wrecks with the loss of seven or eight crews.

March

• 21st
  An unidentified vessel, with a cargo of timber (logs) and tar presumed wrecked at an unspecified location, after cargo and wreckage discovered "near" Lerwick. It is not known whether this is the date of the discovery, or the date of reporting it.

June

• 9th
  The Kleinkinderen, a buss of Vlaandingen, The Netherlands wrecked at the entrance to Grutness Voe.

October

• 30th
  The Flora. a brigantine laden with a cargo of timber and tar, of Aberdeen, Scotland, from Archangel, Russia and for London, England went ashore on Foula. All of the crew were saved, and she was refloated, but capsized. The wreck drifted off, and is belived to have gone ashore again on Fair Isle.

1847 - 1849