1867

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• New house built at Sumburgh for the laird. The building is now the Sumburgh Hotel.
• The paddle steamer Waverly was bought by the North Company, it was renamed St Magnus (I) and set on route from Leith and Aberdeen to Kirkwall and Lerwick.
• Six hundred and ninety-nine men on 61 Shetland smacks (tonnage 2,326) prosecuted the Faroe fishing and brought home 399,148 fish. Twenty-four English smacks (tonnage 960 carrying 222 men) brought an additional 175,125 fish to the Shetland curers yielding a total of 21,301 cwt. dried fish.

February

• 19th
  Rev. John Turnbull died at the Manse of Tingwall. He had served as minister of the United Parishes of Tingwall, Whiteness, and Weisdale for over sixty years.

April

• 2nd
  Whaler Diana of Hull, Captain Gravill, arrived in Ronas Voe with many of the crew dead.

August

• 26th
  Robert Hamilton, MP for Orkney and Shetland, was born.

November

• The Elizabeth (1867), a sloop in ballast, wrecked in Uyea Sound.

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