1902

Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia

• The St. Magnus Bay Hotel was built in Hillswick
• Formation of Lerwick Thistle Football Club

January

• Hull trawler Jupiter lost at Whalsay with 9 crew.
• 22nd
  Winter herring fishing started.

May

• The French registered wooden hulled fishing lugger Jeune Albert (G278) wrecked in St. Ninian's Bay, Bigton. It is disputed in the available records whether this occured on the 23rd or 28th of the month.
• 28th
  The French registered St. Jean, a wooden hulled sailing vessel, classified as a Destroyer, wrecked on or near Shetland.

June

• 12th
  The British registered wooden hulled sailing smack or sloop Brothers Gem wrecked at Aywick, East Yell.
• 27th
  The British registered wooden hulled fishing smack Shamrock (1902) sank approx 9 miles SE of Score Point, Bressay following a collision with the Great Yarmouth steam drifter Thirty-Two.

July

• 5th
  Andrew Smith, 77 Commercial Street, wins Sinclair's Beach case against Lerwick Harbour.
• 8th
  The Barbara Ann (BF1927), a zulu fishing vessel, of MacDuff, Scotland, wrecked near Baltasound, Unst.
• 29th
  MP Cathcart Wason announced his intention to withdraw from the Unionist Party.

August

• 7th
  Wooden fishing smack Brucklay Castle sank at a position approx 1 miles S of Bressay Lighthouse following a collision with the lugger Unity of Inverness.
• 13th
  Cathcart Wason notified his constituents that he had applied for the Chiltern Hundreds and requested their support to re-elect him as a Liberal.
• 20th
  Gilbert Bain Memorial Hospital opened.

September

• 25th
  Central School opened, by Sir Henry Craik.

November

• 26th
  Cathcart Wason re-elected MP as a Liberal.

1901 < - > 1903