P. Rooney was bathing at Albert Park in Port Phillip on February 6th, 1876 when a shark attacked him. A man on horseback rescued him, but Rooney would die shortly after on the beach.

V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.110; A. Sharpe, p.111; Herald (Melbourne), 12/30/1929 & 5/16/1933 editions