| 1911 | An adult female picked up exhausted on the rocks at Black Rock, Brighton (ES) on 24 April (BoMNH 207623 and Griffith, A.F. 1911. Sooty Tern in Sussex. British Birds 5:81) is the seventh British record. | WB dFH |
| 1914 | [A male shot at Jury's Gap (ES) on 9 April.] | WB HR |
| [A female shot at Jury's Gap (ES) on 10 April.] | WB HR | |
| 1984 | An adult at the Ternery Pool, Rye Harbour (ES) during the afternoon of 9 July (British Birds 78 plate 265) had been seen earlier that day at Dungeness, Kent. | *86 × |