Shark attack, 14-Dec-1863 (Unprovoked)
Location: Ile de Loss, Conakry Region, GUINEA
Time: Evening
Activity: Bathing near whaling ship (bark A. R. Tucker of New Bedford, Massachusetts)
Victim: Charles H. Petty (M, age 18)
Injury: FATAL "Most of leg torn away . . .  Buried on Island of DeLoss on the west coast of Africa"
Fatal: Y
Source: P. Purrington, Whaling Museum & Old Dartmouth Historical Society; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.321