Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Horatio Nelson, later Lord Nelson, visited Shetland while a midshipman with Phipps tour of the Arctic.
- "Historical Description of the Zetland Isles in the year 1733: with an appendix of illustrative documents", by Thomas Gifford was published, seventeen years after his death.
- The vessel John and Mary, laden with timber, of and for Whitby, England from Memel, Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania), wrecked on South Havra either during March or on February 11th. All of the crew were lost.
The James, a sail brig laden with a cargo of timber deals, of Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, from Trondheim, Norway, wrecked, most probably, on Strandburgh Ness, Fetlar.
The immigration ship Batchelor of Leith, Master Alexander Ramage, bound for Wilmington, NC, had to seek shelter from a storm in Vaila Sound. The ship was damaged, and the 204 passengers wintered in Vaila Sound.
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