Shark attack, 1936-07-25 (Unprovoked)
Location: Hollywood Beach, just above Mattapoisett Harbor, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, USA
Time: 15h30
Activity: Swimming crawl stroke
Victim: Joseph Troy, Jr (M, age 16)
Injury: FATAL, finger severed, thigh bitten He died during the surgical amputation of his leg   
Fatal: Y
Species: White shark (identified by Dr. Hugh Smith) 
Source: B. R. Tilden, M.D.; NY Times, 7/26/1936, p.2;  E.W. Gudger (1950); V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp. 150 & 253; H.D. Baldridge, p. 35