Date07-Oct-1954
TypeSea Disaster
CountryUSA
Location150 miles off Cape Henry
ActivityAmerican freighter Mormackite, bound from Buenos Aires for Baltimore, capsized & sank in heavy seas
InjuryRescue 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
Victimsecond cook, Male
SourceLong Beach Independent, 10/11/1954, p.9; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.197; V.M. Coppleson (1962), pp. 213 & .259
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