NAME: Samuel McKie DESCRIPTION: He was apprentice first class on the Naval ship Annapolis.

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ACTIVITY: Swimming CASE: GSAF 1901.06.24 DATE: Sunday June 24, 1901 LOCATION: The incident took place in the South China Sea near Iliolo on the island of Panay in the Philippine Islands.

1 ACTIVITY: Swimming CASE: GSAF DATE: Sunday June 24, 1901 LOCATION: The incident took place in the South China Sea near Iliolo on the island of Panay in the Philippine Islands. NAME: Samuel McKie DESCRIPTION: He was apprentice first class on the Naval ship Annapolis. BACKGROUND: MOON PHASE: First Quarter, June 24, 1901 DISTANCE FROM SHORE: 30 feet (Coppleson) DISTANCE FROM BOAT: 15 to 20 yards DEPTH OF WATER: 10 to 12 feet (Coppleson) TIME: 15h00 (Coppleson) NARRATIVE: The man was, at the time of the accident, swimming with a firing party which had encamped about three miles from Iloilo; this party was in charge of Lieutenant J.F. Luby of the U.S.S. Annapolis. Similar firing parties are regularly taken ashore for target practice with small arms, and at the same time the occasion is made use of to give the men drill and exercise in swimming. In conversation with McK., his brief statement was to the effect that, while swimming near the boat, he suddenly felt himself dragged under water by some powerful force. Not realizing what it was, his first impulse was to resist and swim to the surface. He then felt a terrible crunching at his left knee, but he states that, owing no doubt to the excitement he did not think of pain or experience any. As unexpectedly as the onset, he felt himself released and then he swam with all his remaining strength to the boat, some ten or fifteen yards away. He then understood that his leg was gone, but dauntlessly kept up his one and only arm, to regain the boat if possible. INJURY: An amputation at the middle third of the left thigh had been performed when Dr. Guthrie first saw this case. He writes: This amputation had been made necessary by a shark bite in which the entire loss of the left leg and a quantity of muscular and other tissue of the thigh was involved, leaving the lower extremity of the femur exposed. Another report states, The wound was peculiar, the leg being grasped about four inches above the knee joint, stripped down to the bone and torn away at the joint, thus leaving the lower extremity of the femur free of all tissue. FIRST AID / TREATMENT: He was hauled aboard [the boat], and his companions by pressure on the femoral artery, temporarily controlled the haemorrhage. Joseph Tall, a chief master-at-arms, who was in the boat, tore off his own shirt, using it for dressings; then making a Spanish windlass with his neckerchief and a stick of wood, he applied it around the upper third of the thigh. The patient was rowed in this condition a distance of two miles to the ship. The medical

2 officer was ashore and assistance was summoned from Luzon, and Assistant Surgeon Jacob Stepp with his hospital apprentice responded. Dr. Stepp performed a circular amputation, the lower third of the femur being removed. On June 28 the patient was transferred to the U.S. military hospital at Iloilo. The record of this case is in the ship s log of the U.S.S. Annapolis; also in the Annals of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. When last I saw the man he was in good health and had made a complete recovery from the amputation. SPECIES INVOLVED: Not identified. Coppleson writes: Shark not seen, but several had been seen in locality. Native taken near same spot three months previously. SOURCES: Los Angeles Times, August 9, 1901, page 4; Fort Wayne News, August 29, 1902; Guthrie, J.A. (1902). Three cases of shark bite. New York Medical Journal. 76: ; H. M. Smith, Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries; Victor M. Coppleson (1958), page 264.

4 Chicago Daily Tribune, August 29, 1902, page 6

NAME: Primrose Whyte DESCRIPTION: She was a well-known swimming instructress and lifesaver.

NAME: Primrose Whyte DESCRIPTION: She was a well-known swimming instructress and lifesaver. 1930 : Brighton, Adelaide, South Australia ACTIVITY: Swimming CASE: GSAF 1926.03.18 DATE: Thursday March 18, 1926 LOCATION: The attack took place near West Beach, Brighton, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.