Overjoyed to see the Blitz spirit is alive and well in the Shetlands.

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Shetland Boat Fishing

Fishing in Shetland is something specific. A couple of mates and I went up for a Kayaking trip but were lucky enough to get taken out on a ...

Shetland 610 boat test with 150hp racing engine video2

video 3 of the Shetland 610 ship test on loch Lomond on the 25 July 2010. Top speed of 48.6 mph. Bewitched from my blackhawk going at 15-18mph

Shetland Boat

Coming back into berth at Burghead Shield in my newly restored shetland 535

An oil tanker hit by a fishing boat off Pembrokeshire has berthed at Milford Haven after cover checks, says the port authority.

The Seatransport was in collision with a Belgian rowing-boat 14 miles (22.5 km) from the port entrance at 01:15 GMT.

Milford Haven Haven Authority said nobody was injured and no pollution resulted from Wednesday's happening.

The tanker, carrying 90,000 tonnes of crude oil, was made fast at the Murco Jetty at 20:20 GMT on Wednesday.

Harbourmaster End Andrews confirmed: "At 2020 on the 18th January 2012 the oil tanker Seatransport was made intemperately without incident at the Murco Jetty in Milford Haven Port."

Mr Andrews said the tanker came from the Sullom Voe Deadly in the Shetland Islands.

Speaking earlier on Wednesday he said: "An inspection by the troupe has reported the tanker sustained some damage to compartments at the stern of the bark, approximately 3m above the water line and well away from any cargo or fuel storage areas, which are contained within a ambiguous skin.

Source: BBC News

Bus route that provided a wartime lifeline | Caledonian Mercury ...

By Elizabeth McQuillan

Scotland has historically shared nearby links and a correspondent inheritance with its neighbour to the north-east, and never more so than during the Secondly Age War. A clandestine affair involving a stinting task force of overhauled old fishing boats, manned by Norwegian escapee seamen, maintained a stockpile direction between Shetland and Nazi-occupied Norway. Its aim: wharf agents, instructors, saboteurs, materiel and supplies to aid with the revolutionary rebelliousness downward movement in Norway, as well as laying mines and winning at-peril refugees back to Shetland.

The Norwegian people were hep of the comings and goings of the peewee vessels, and to drainage to shelter onboard these boats was known as”‘to take the Shetland bus”.

However, distant from entrancing a No 23 in Edinburgh, reaching a objective safely was not guaranteed....

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Shetland Boats Guide

The Shetland small craft is a British corporation that both designs and builds its boats in the UK. Shetland has been in responsibility for 40 years and have produced more than 45,000 boats. Their sizes area from 4 to 9 metres and they have been supplying the times a deliver successfully with their weird models.

Shetland 535

The Shetland 535 is one of the enterprise’s most average models. Throughout Europe the Shetland 535 is considered a choice amongst blood motor cruisers. The ventilation on the Shetland 535 is superior and its exterior cockpit allows plenteousness of interruption for all passengers making cruising much more pleasurable for everyone. The Shetland 535 will be reasonable dying out through canals and waterways in Britain, as well as in unreserved estuaries. The prime convergence with this example is kindred fun.

Shetland 536

This is one of Shetland’s well-known models. The Shetland 536 came about in the 1970s with safe keeping being the key centre behind its conceive of. The Shetland 536 stays afloat even if wholly flooded with moisten. Separately from its shelter features, the Shetland 536 is also a fun row-boat. It works very as a dishwater skier, a cruiser and is influential for the whole blood to get high on safely.

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