The table below is an abridged version of the SCS UK Thresher Database, each record indicates a verified catch or sighting. Further details will be made available to genuine researchers, writers and scientists on application. If anyone knows of any confirmed catches or sightings not listed below the Society would be grateful for the information. An abridged version of the Mako database will appear shortly.
RICHARD PEIRCE has investigated approximately 100 claimed Great White shark sightings in UK waters over the past 18 years. Brief details appear on Richard's website, and the Society will also make the results of these investigations available to bona fide enquirers.
Year | Date | Location |
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1800 | early 1800s | off Copeland Islands, County Down, NI |
1846 | 1846 | Saltee Islands, Co Wexford, NI |
1854 | c. 1854 | Dingle Bay, Co Kerry |
1860 | aug 1860 | Carlingford Lough, Co Down |
1865 | winter 1865 | Dublin Bay, Co Dublin |
1876 | 16/6/1876 | Portrush, Co Antrim |
1881 | 20/10/1881 | Lowestoft |
1890 | 1890 | SW Coast of Ireland off Ballycotton, Co Cork |
1897 | sept 1897 | Lowestoft |
1898 | 7/11/1898 | Lowestoft |
1898 | 1898 | Isle of Man |
1899 | oct 1899 | Bartragh Strand, Kitala Bay, Co Mayo |
1899 | 22/11/1899 | Kitala Bay, Co Mayo |
1905 | 10/03/1905 | Sizewell |
1905 | 1905 | Sheephaven Bay, Co Donegal |
1905 | summer 1905 | Port na Blagh, Sheephaven Bay, Co Donegal |
1906 | 10/12/1906 | Southwold |
1927 | 1927 | Isle of Man |
1928 | 1928 | Southwold |
1929 | 1929 | Mevagissey, Cornwall |
1930 | 1930 | [not recorded] |
1933 | 1933 | Dungerness, Kent. |
1954 | 02/07/54 | Bournemouth, Dorset. |
1955 | Jul-55 | White Bank |
1956 | 22/9/1956 | North of Helgoland |
1956 | 24/9/56 | Silver Pit |
1956 | 24/9/1956 | Dogger Bank |
1959 | 27/8/59 | Looe |
1959 | 04/9/59 | Looe, Cornwall |
1960 | Sep-60 | Suffolk coast |
1960 | Oct-60 | Suffolk coast |
1962 | 09/06/1962 | Suffolk coast |
1962 | 10/06/1962 | Suffolk coast |
1962 | 27/07/62 | Littlehampton, West Sussex |
1963 | 16/08/63 | Shanklin, Isle of Wight |
1965 | 30/07/65 | Looe, Cornwall | 1970 | 1970 | Isle of Wight |
1970 | 1970s | Tralee Bay, Co Kerry |
1971 | Aug-71 | St Catherine's Deeps, Isle of Wight |
1971 | 1971 | Isle of Wight |
1971 | 10/08/1971 | Suffolk coast |
1971 | 21/11/71 | Suffolk coast |
1971 | 10/05/1971 | Suffolk coast |
pre-1972 | [not recorded] | one mile out from St Catherine's Lighthouse, Isle of Wight |
pre-1972 | [not recorded] | Kent coast |
1973 | 07/08/1973 | 3 miles off Lowestoft (rod & Line) |
1973 | 15/7/73 | Sizewell Bank |
1973 | 06/12/1973 | Suffolk coast |
1975 | May-75 | eastern English Channel |
1976 | 1976 | Isle of Wight |
1977 | Jul-77 | eastern English Channel |
1977 | Jul-77 | eastern English Channel |
1977 | Jul-77 | eastern English Channel |
1977 | Jul-77 | eastern English Channel |
1978 | 1978 | Isle of Wight |
1981 | Jun-81 | [not recorded] |
1982 | 1982 | Nab Tower, Gosport, Isle of Wight |
1982 | Jul-82 | Suffolk coast |
1983 | 1983 | Isle of Wight |
1983 | Jul-83 | off Christchurch Dorset |
1983 | 28/6/1983 | off Camperdown |
1984 | Aug-84 | 1km off Caister |
1986 | 1986 | Isle of Wight |
1987 | 07/02/1987 | 3-6 miles off Blyth |
1987 | 06/01/1987 | Off Pakefield Beach |
1990 | 1990 | Bembridge? |
1991 | 21/6/91 | Walton-on-the-Naze, Gunfleet Bouy |
1995 | 22/08/1995 | landed at Newlyn fish market in Cornwall |
1999 | Feb-99 | 16 miles SSW of Eddystone Rocks, south of Plymouth, Cornwall |
1999 | 10/06/1999 | off South Devon, landed at Plymouth |
1999 | 11/10/1999 | Guernsey. Caught about a mile offshore at 49° 24.8' N and 2° 36.85' W near rocks called Les Lieuses in 20m of water. |
2001 | 06/11/2001 | Off Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth |
2002 | 2002 | Looe fish market |
2002 | Nov-02 | Looe |
2002 | July 2002 | 192km SSW Dingle, Co Kerry |
2003 | 22/08/2003 | Chesil Beach/IOW |
2003 | Jun-03 | Bass nets, Blackwater |
2004 | 09/03/2004 | landed at Plymouth |
2004 | 18/05/2004 | west of Alderney, Channel Islands |
2004 | 07/07/2004 | St Osyth beach |
2004 | Mar-04 | Bench Head, River Colne |
2004 | 17/6/2004 | Southwold |
2004 | 17/6/2004 | off Sizewell, Aldeburgh |
2004 | 29/6/2004 | Landed at Southwold |
2004 | 07/06/2004 | St Osyth Beach |
2005 | July 2005 | off south coast, Co Waterford |
2006 | Oct-06 | IoW |
2006 | 2006 | Nab Tower, Isle of Wight |
2006 | 2006 | landed at Southwold |
2007 | 20/7/2007 | Filey, near Scarborough, Yorkshire. |
2007 | 2007 | Yorkshire |
2007 | 06/08/2007 | five miles south east of St Catherine's, IoW's most southerly point |
2007 | 31/10/2007 | Cornwall (unloaded at Gribben Head, near Mevagissey) |
2007 | 21/11/2007 | Lands End |
2007 | 27/9/07 | Trevose Head, Cornwall |
2007 | 2007 | landed at Newlyn |
2007 | 2007 | landed at Mevagissey |
2007 | 2007 | landed at Dungeness |
2007 | 2007 | landed at Appledore |
2008 | May-08 | off Portland, Dorset |
2008 | 2008 | landed at Brixham |
2008 | 2008 | landed at Ramsgate |
2008 | 2008 | landed at Brixham |
2009 | 24/09/2009 | Hayle, Cornwall |
2009 | 2009 | landed at Brixham |
2009 | 2009 | landed at Brixham |
2009 | 2009 | landed at Brixham |
2009 | 2009 | landed at Rye |
2009 | 2009 | landed at Great Yarmouth |
2009 | 2009 | midwater Portavogie |
2009 | 2009 | landed at Weymouth |
2010 | 09/07/2010 | 1/2 mile off Boscombe Pier, Dorset |
2010 | 2010 | landed at Teignmouth |
2010 | 2010 | landed at Brixham |
2010 | 2010 | landed at Rye |
2010 | 2010 | landed at Folkestone |
2010 | 2010 | landed at Folkestone |
2010 | 2010 | landed at Aldeburgh and Orford |
2011 | 09/08/2011 | Calf of Man |
2011 | Aug-11 | off Dartmouth, Devon |
2012 | Jul-12 | landed at Falmouth |
2012 | 08/08/12 | Cardigan Bay |
2012 | Aug-12 | caught off Looe in Cornwall |
2012 | Aug-12 | Ceredigian, west Wales |
2012 | August 23 | 3 miles off Bude, north Cornwall |
2012 | September 4 | Bude Bay near Crackington Haven/Millook (possibly same animal as above sighting) |
2012 | Latter half October | North of Padstow, Cornwall |
2013 | August | Isle of Wight |
2013 | August | Pembrokeshire |
2013 | 7th/8th October | Mid English channel - western end |
Year | Date | Location |
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1954 | 08/07/1954 | Looe |
1955 | ??/??/1955 | Looe |
1956 | 13/07/1956 | Looe |
1956 | ??/07/1956 | Looe |
1959 | 12/06/1959 | Looe |
1959 | 10/07/1959 | Looe |
1959 | 16/07/1959 | Looe |
1960 | 22/06/1960 | Falmouth |
1960 | ??/??/1960 | Falmouth |
1960 | 16/09/1960 | Falmouth |
1960 | 23/09/1960 | Fowey |
1961 | 21/05/1961 | Looe |
1961 | ??/??/1961 | Looe |
1961 | 20/06/1961 | Fowey |
1961 | 07/07/1961 | Looe |
1961 | 26/09/1961 | Looe |
1962 | ??/??/1962 | Looe |
1963 | 31/07/1963 | Looe |
1963 | 31/07/1963 | Looe |
1963 | ??/??/1963 | Looe |
1963 | 28/06/1963 | Looe |
1963 | ??/??/1963 | Falmouth |
1963 | ??/??/1963 | Falmouth |
1963 | 28/06/1963 | Looe |
1963 | 16/08/1963 | Shanklin IOW |
1963 | 16/06/1963 | Mevagissey |
1964 | ??/07/1964 | Falmouth |
1964 | ??/??/1964 | Looe |
1965 | ??/??/1965? | Falmouth |
1966 | ??/??/1966 | Looe |
1966 | ??/06?/1966? | Falmouth |
1966 | ??/??/1966 | Falmouth |
1966 | ??/??/1966 | Falmouth |
1967 | ??/07/1967 | Falmouth |
1967 | ??/??/1967 | Looe |
1967 | ??/??/1967 | Falmouth |
1967 | 29/08/1968 | Falmouth |
1968 | ??/??/1968? | Falmouth |
1969 | 01/07/1969 | Falmouth |
1970 | 23/06/1970 | Falmouth |
1971 | 16/06/1971 | Falmouth |
1971 | ??/05/1971 | Looe |
1976 | ??/??/1976 | Mevagissey |
[not recorded] | [not recorded] | Falmouth |
[not recorded] | [not recorded] | Falmouth |
[not recorded] | [not recorded] | Falmouth |
[not recorded] | [not recorded] | Mevagissey |
[not recorded] | [not recorded] | Looe |
2013 | Mid July 2013 | 30 miles off Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire |