Shark attack, 28-Sep-1828 (Unprovoked)
Location: River Sierra Leone, 35 miles  upriver from Freetown, Western Area, SIERRA LEONE
Activity: British ship, Britannia,  was loading lumber. He was bathing
Victim: Thomas Corrigle, an apprentice from the ship (M, age 17)
Injury: Left arm severed 2.5" from elbow, groin, abdomen, right forearm & hand lacerated, flesh removed from thigh, baring femur. Both arms surgically amputated: left arm above elbow, right arm above wrist. Survived
Fatal: N
Source: Account by J. Boyle