• Date: 29 August 1925, boat arriving to landing at 14:25.

• Ship: USLHT Maga

• The ship has recently been returned to duty in the 9th Lighthouse District, based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after refitting. The delay in resupplying the light has accordingly been longer than usual, at six months, but it was planned for ahead of time. (The ship was already being loaded and expecting to set out in a few days.)

Hurricane: passing north of Navassa 29 August - 2 September; severe thunderstorm storm/rain on 30 August. Clear on the 31st-1st. Position: 29: NE of PR. 30: N of PR. 31: NE of Hispanola. 1 Sep: NNE of hispanola. 2: far east of florida.

Sequence of events in chronological order:

• A small population of nocturnal prehistoric avian predators exists in the remote jungles of the Yucatan peninsula. They are vaguely like the Quetzalcoatlus.
• One such animal was blown far from its usual haunts in the recent hurricane, coming to rest on Navassa on 24 August.
• The animal proceeded to eat feral dogs, the remains of one of which were seen by a child on the morning of the 25th, and a hog, the absence of which was noted in the afternoon.
• the second assistant lightkeeper, shortly after being relieved, went to look for the hog in the evening. He was eaten by the predator.
• The principal lightkeeper and his teenaged (15) son went to look for the lightkeeper when he was not at the quarters around midnight.
• The principal lightkeeper and his son were eaten. The first assistant, his wife, was standing the watch at the time, and saw him outside the lantern, the bird having dropped him in his struggles. Unfortunately, he died before communicating anything useful and fell off the railing to the foot of the lighthouse, where his body remained (the slightly wounded bird having been deterred).
• The first assistant and second assistant decided to raise a distress signal. The second assistant went to the keeper's quarters to get a box of signal flares to be ready should a ship be sighted.
• The first assistant heard a gun being discharged about ten minutes after the second assistant left the lighthouse.
• She heard screaming but could not leave her watch and honestly was terrified of what was outside.
• After sunrise, a distress signal (inverted flag) was raised on the morning of 26 August by the first assistant, and seen by an Eastbound ship the same day. The ship had a radiotelegraph and the message was received in San Juan in the late afternoon.
• The first assistant and her two younger children (12, 10) have been holed up in the lighthouse since noon on the 26th. They found the signal flares strewn around the ground on between the keepers' quarters and the lighthouse.

• The Maga sailed for Navassa from San Juan around noon on the 27th of August.

• In the interim, no more attacks have occurred, as the wounded beast