1892

Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia

• Fair Isle South Lighthouse was first lit.
• Fair Isle Kirk was built.
• Lerwick gained its own police force.
• P. W. Greig's book "Annals of a Shetland Parish: Delting" was published by C. & A. Sandison, Lerwick.
• Whalsay fishermen, fishing for Hay & Company, go on strike in an effort to achieve better return for their labours.
  In a move typical of their attitudes of the time, the British Government sends a gunboat to Whalsay
• An unidentified vessel wrecked on the Ve Skerries (in addition to the Nor).
• The Orkney, Shetland and Northern Society or Viking Club (now called The Viking Society for Northern Studies), was formed to promote an interest in the Scandinavian North, its literature and antiquities.

January

• 1st
  Norwegian barque S/S Nor of Arendal, wrecked on Ve Skerries

February

• 10th
  Author Charles Sandison was born.

April

• 15th
  Earthquake shock experienced in Unst.

June

• 20th or 27th
  The Manne Du Ciel, a sail lugger fishing vessel, of Gravelines, France wrecked in St Ninian's Bay, Bigton. All of the crew were saved.

July

• 1st
  The Princess Of Thule, a wooden hulled fishing smack, unregistered but owned in Lerwick, seven crew and nine passengers, in passage to the fishing grounds wrecked on the Green Holm to the north of Lerwick Harbour.
• 14th
  A wooden hulled trading sail lugger, name not known, built 1880, 1 Ton, owner and Captain T. Green, West Yell, two crew, crossing Yell Sound in ballast, foundered off North Roe. Both aboard perished.

November

• 1st
  Fair Isle North Lighthouse was first lit.

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