1931
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
February
- 21st
First 'shout' for new Lerwick Lifeboat, In a hurricane and blizzard she rescues 26 crew from the steamer 'Everline' of Riga, off the west side of Yell, and tows in a Faroese ketch.
- 24th
First 'Talking Picture' shown at The North Star Cinema.
June
August
- American airmen Cramer and Paquette disappeared over North Sea after leaving Lerwick in their flying boat.
September
- Four flying boats visited Lerwick harbour.
October
November
- Completion of £11,000 water improvement scheme for Lerwick.
December
John Corkish's grave at
Måløy Cemetery
- Nine Shetlanders died when the Panama steamer Venus was wrecked near Måløy on the Norwegian west coast. One man, John Corkish, age 56, is buried in 'Måløy Cemetery'. Three of the men, William Davidson, age 30, Magnus Edwardson, age 28, and Charles O'Neil, age 21, are buried in 'Vågsvåg Cemetery', and a memorial stone has been put up there. Of the other five who were never found, two were brothers, Laurence Hunter, aged 33, and Hugh Hunter, aged 31, together with William Forbes, aged 27, James Irvine, age 21, Peter Sim, age 29, all from Lerwick.
Read more about it here: The loss of Venus.
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