Hoswick Whale Caa

Looking across Hoswick Beach from the west; much activity on the beach - school of caain whales ashore. Many people occupied flensing. This was the famous event when a school of 331 whales were driven at Hoswick. The Sandwick men, led by Sinclair T. Duncan, of Hoswick, refused to give up the laird's one-third share. John Bruce, the laird, took action in court, but the finding was
against him. He carried the matter to the Court of Session and lost
again. Henceforth all whales driven in Shetland were the property
of the men who killed them.