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Lerwick Harbour
 
A print from a lithograph entitled Lerwick, Shetland.

Navel shipping in the harbour including a frigate, Dutch busses and other sailing craft. Ship's boat being rowed in foreground.

Shetland was an obvious target for the Royal Navy Impress or Press Gangs for many years in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth Century as Shetland men were skilled in handling and sailing boats. The Press Gangs also named the Bluejackets would regularly come ashore seizing every able-bodied man and boy from the age of 14 to 45 for service in the Navy.
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