Shark attack, 1940-01-23 (Unprovoked)
Location: North Brighton, Botany Bay, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Time: 10h40
Activity: Swimming
Victim: Maxwell Farrin (M, age 13)
Injury: FATAL, left leg severed  
Fatal: Y
Species: 3 m [10'] shark
Source: V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.69; A. Sharpe, pp.65-66