1860

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January

• 11th
  A small boat capsized or foundered in Yell Sound between Mossbank and Yell. Five people perished.

October

• 11th
  First Roman Catholic services in Lerwick, since Reformation.

December

• 11th
  A board bearing the name Superior, presumed to be wreckage from a vessel, reported washed ashore at Tros Wick, Dunrossness. Nothing further is known about her or her fate.
• 16th
  The nameboard of a vessel, bearing the word Christiansand reported washed ashore at Tros Wick, Dunrossness, another bearing the name Edinburgh reported at Whalsay, two bearing the lettering E OLUS at Nesting, one with the word Active at Bressay, and at an unspecified location in Lunnasting, one with Holsatia. It is not known whether these boards bore the name or part name of the vessels, or the name or part name of the home port(s) of the vessel(s) concerned, similarly the fate the vessels is also unknown. This is presumed to be the date of reporting, rather than the date of discovery.

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