Ronald D. Sunderland from the Royal Australian Nave was on leave from HMAS on February 10th, 1946 when a shark attacked him. He was at City Beach standing when a 13’9’’ (4.2m) white shark bit is leg. Sunderland would need the leg to be surgically amputated, but he would survive the attack.

West Australian, 2/11/1946, p.6; G.P. Whitley (1951), p.193; V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.111 & 245; A. Sharpe, pp.130-131; H. Edwards, p.133-134