1918
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- A Norwegian registered, but otherwise unidentified vessel is recorded as having sunk after striking a mine at a position approx 40 miles N of Foula.
January
- 2nd
Steamer Gwladmena sunk in Breiwick. - 8th
Author and antiquarian Gilbert Goudie dies. - 14th
The British ship Alster (964GRT), was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine 5 miles east - southeast from Noss Head, Shetland.
February
- 6th
Betty Mouat died.
April
- 23rd
The British fishing vessel Tyne Wave, (121GRT), sunk 20 miles west - north - west from Ramna Stacks, and the British fishing vessel Peregrine, (76GRT), sunk 15 miles north - north - west from Ramna Stacks. Both sunk by a German submarine.
May
- 7th
The Nantes, (1580GRT), a steamship, of London, England, from Bergen, Norway for West Hartlepool, England with a mixed general cargo, was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine U-105 and sunk at a position approx 88 miles east - southeast of Fair Isle. - The Saxon, a steamship, of London, England, from Odde (Odda), Norway to Leith, Scotland torpodoed and sunk by German submarine U-105 at a position approx 83 miles ESE of Fair Isle. Twenty-two crew lost.
June
- 4th
Author John Spence died.
August
- 13th
Dr Jakob Jakobsen died.
September
- 16th
A Supermarine Felixstowe F3 Flying Boat, N4252, of 306 Flight R.N.A.S. (Royal Naval Air Service) crashed in to the sea and was lost at a position approx 4 miles NE of Fair Isle.
November
- End of World War I , Shetland mourns over six hundred dead, a higher ratio of its population than any other British county. See War Wemorials
- 15th
Poet William J. Tait was born.
December
- 14th
General Election, Cathcart Wason returned unopposed.
