A huge shark

This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain Dresser

From Melbourne we went round to Port Turton, in Spencer's Gulf, and loaded, and men were aloft bending sails ready for the passage home, when one of them sang out that a large shark was coming for a sheep skin trailing over the stern. The skin was one which the carpenter was curing, and had slung over to dip up and down to clean. I looked, and saw a tremendous shark, which made a leap at the skin as I hauled it inboard. It missed, and I lowered the skin, at which it returned to the charge, but missing, seemed to get scared, and made off. We have been in the habit of bathing round the ship up till then, but then that practice ceased after this visit. He must have been quite sixteen feet long, his head measuring at least four feet.



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