1994

Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia

• Formation of Shetland Farm Dairies Ltd

April

• 12th
  Bonhoga Gallery opens at Weisdale Mill
• 18th
  C.J. (Clement) Williamson, photographer and author, died in Scalloway, aged 90.
• 25th
  North Atlantic Fisheries College officially opened.

May

• 14th
  Unst Boat Haven officially opened by Robert J. Anderson, of the SIC's department of Leisure and Recreation.

June

• 24th
  Burra Isle fishing boat 'Adonis' LK172 sinks west of Shetland after an engine room fire. The five crewmen are picked up from a liferaft.

July

• 7th
  Poet Rhoda Bulter dies.

October

• 16th
  The Seaward Quest (BF377), a motor fishing trawler, of Banff, Scotland sank at a position approx 52 miles west of Papa Stour. All of the crew were saved.
• 31st
  Russian klondyker Pionersk wrecked on Trebister Ness.Lerwick Lifeboat and Coastguard helicopter rescue all 155 crew.

November

• 5th
  The old Mull of Eswick Lighthouse was destroyed when a large part of the cliff collapsed into the sea.

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