1864

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• Author Catherine Sinclair died.
• The Zetland Roads Act passes in Parliament.
• The peak year for the Faroe fishing, 107 boats crewed by 1185 men sailed to the fishing grounds.

January

• 22nd
  Dr. phil. Jákup Jakobsen, aka Jakob Jakobsen; the Faeroese linguist who later became reknowned for his studies of the old Shetland Norn was born in Tórshavn († 15. August 1918).
• 19th
  The Royal Victoria, a full rigged ship of Liverpool, England, from Sunderland, England and for Calcutta, India, laden, it is believed, with a cargo of coal, abandoned by her crew, most likely, to the NW of Shetland at an approx position, given as either N 60, 3. W 1, 3. or N 63. W 13.
• 23rd
  Survivors of the wreck of the Royal Victoria come ashore at Melby

June

• 27th
  St Magnus Church consecrated by Bishop Suther
• 30th
  Author Christina Jamieson was born at Cruisdale, Sandness

July

• Part of a vessel reported washed ashore at an unspecified location in Dunrossness, and reports of quantities of square cut timber floating at various locations off Shetland. A timber laden vessel presumed wrecked somewhere in the vicinity.

October

• 20th
  The Maria (1864), a wooden hulled smack, of Lerwick, drove ashore and was wrecked at Grutness during a E gale. All of the crew were saved.

November

• One or more unidentified vessels persumed lost on or near the Isle of Noss, Bressay late in the month after wreckage reported coming ashore on the east coast of Bressay and at East Yell. Reports included finding three bodies, a sofa, spring bottom chair(s) and other cabin furniture, only likely to have been found on a large passenger carrying vessel, at unrecorded locations, plus portions of a large vessel, believed to be Russian, at Aywick, all on Yell. A portion of wreck was sighted off Whalsay, and items of cabin furniture were also found on the east coast of Bressay. In addition an amount of timber, large deals and planks were strewn all along the coast.
• 25th
  The Norwegian barque Freya (1864) wrecked at Hamna Voe, Papa Stour.
• The Elida, a schooner, of and for Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, from Drontheim (now Trondheim), Norway wrecked on a reef at the entrance to Aithsvoe, Cunningsburgh with the loss of all aboard.
• An unidentified barque, registered in New York, U.S.A. and laden with a cargo timber, but in a derelict condition, wrecked at Gulber Wick, possibly on Kirka Baa.
• 27th
  The Duipavon, a wooden hulled schooner, of and for Copenhagen, Denmark from Borrefjord, Iceland wrecked at Sand Wick. All of the crew were saved.
• The Orion, a schooner, of Frederikstadt, Norway, laden with a cargo of timber, presumed wrecked with the loss of all hands somewhere close to the south of Mousa.
• 28th
  The nameboard of a vessel, the Victoria reported washed ashore at South Yell. The fate of this vessel is otherwise unknown.

December

• The nameboard of a vessel, the Commercien reported washed ashore at Dunrossness. The fate of this vessel is otherwise unknown.
• 3rd
  A vessel, registered in Denmark, but otherwise unidentified wrecked on Yell.
• 24th
  A lifebuoy, identified as belonging to the vessel Countryman, registered in Arendal, Norway, reported recovered at or "near" Lerwick. It is not known whether the lifebuoy had simply washed overboard, or if the vessel herself had suffered an unfortunate fate at some unknown location. The date given is preseumed to be the date of reporting, rather than the date of discovery.

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