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UK THRESHER SIGHTINGS/LANDINGS DATABASE
(The Society's databases are compiled by Mike Sharland and Rob Allen)
The SCS Thresher database is made up of credible historical records or eye witness accounts. Eye witness accounts only qualify for inclusion in the database when there are at least two witnesses and both of them are deemed knowledgeable and reliable

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
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
This database was compiled by Mike Sharland and Rob Allen
UK SHORTFIN MAKO SIGHTINGS/LANDINGS DATABASE
Year Date Location
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
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