Horror day when shark killed boy off Grays Point

By Jim Gainsford
January 24 2014 - 5:55am
Copy of SMH article published January 4, 1927 on the fatal shark attack at Grays Point where 15-year-old Mervyn Allum died.
Copy of SMH article published January 4, 1927 on the fatal shark attack at Grays Point where 15-year-old Mervyn Allum died.
Believed site of 1927 fatal shark was sandflats on the southern side of Mansion Bay, at the end Grays Point Road. Picture: Jane Dyson
Believed site of 1927 fatal shark was sandflats on the southern side of Mansion Bay, at the end Grays Point Road. Picture: Jane Dyson

THE debate over the risk of shark attack in Port Hacking has revived the memory of an 87-year-old tragedy when a boy, 15, died after being attacked while swimming off Grays Point.

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