Date14-Dec-1863
TypeUnprovoked
CountryGUINEA
LocationIle de Loss
ActivityBathing near whaling ship (bark A. R. Tucker of New Bedford, Massachusetts)
InjuryFATAL "Most of leg torn away . . . Buried on Island of DeLoss on the west coast of Africa"
VictimCharles H. Petty, Male, 18 years old
TimeEvening
SourceP. Purrington, Whaling Museum & Old Dartmouth Historical Society; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.321
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