1862

Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia

• The first Shetland produced newspaper, The Shetland Advertiser, was publised by Charles D. Jamieson.

March

A lifebuoy marked Preciosa, van Stavanger, or Preciosa van Stravanger reported recovered from the sea near Cunningsburgh. Nothing further is known of this vessel.

May

• 6th or 10th
  Barque Cherokee wrecked on the Bard of Bressay.
• 28th
  Haldane Burgess born in Lerwick

August

• 4th
  Opening of the 'higher school at the Anderson Educational Institute'.

November

• 12th
  Robert Bruce (3), who later became the eight Laird Bruce of Symbister, married Anne, eldest daughter of Archibald Simson of Comedpore, Bengal.
• 24th
  "The Free Church of Unst have found it necessary to suspend 20 of their members for dancing, and two for happening to be passengers in a vessel that sailed on a Sunday."^[1]

• 28th
  Opening of the 'lower school at the Anderson Educational Institute'.

December

• The Agility, a fishing vessel, wrecked on Sumburgh Head.
• 4th
  The schooner Maria Key wrecked at Burrafirth.
• 19th
  Andrina Gifford, unwed daughter of Andrew Gifford of Ollaberry, died at Glasgow.
  The Norueguesa, a schooner, of Spain, from Bilbao, Spain for Scalloway via Lerwick to load fish, drove ashore from anchor in Leven Wick. Although declared a wreck, she was subsequently refloated, but being very leaky quickly sank.
• An unidentified vessel, in ballast, registered in Bo'ness, Scotland, drove ashore on the Taing of Levenwick, Dunrossness. It is not known whether the vessel was salvaged or became a wreck.

References

1. ↑ The Shetland Book

1861 - 1863