Shark attack, 1954-10-07 (Sea Disaster)
Location: 150 miles off Cape Henry, Virginia, USA
Activity: American freighter Mormackite, bound from Buenos Aires for Baltimore, capsized & sank in heavy seas
Victim: second cook (M, age )
Injury: Rescue aircraft saw bodies in the water being bitten by sharks. One survivor saw a shark take off a man�s leg & another reported that the second cook was killed by a shark
Fatal: Y
Source: Long Beach Independent, 10/11/1954, p.9; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.197; V.M. Coppleson (1962), pp. 213 & .259