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The ''Christena'' disaster was a maritime disaster with over 200 casualties, a ferry boat shipwreck that occurred on 1 August 1970, between the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis in the Leeward Islands, West Indies. ==Details== MV ''Christena'' was an 160-foot, government owned and operated ferry boat, which for the previous 11 years had worked the 12-mile route between Basseterre, the capital of the island of St. Kitts, and Charlestown, the capital of the island of Nevis. On the afternoon of Saturday 1 August 1970 (the weekend of the annual Emancipation Day holiday), the ferry boat was overloaded on its final run of the day from St. Kitts to Nevis. The passenger capacity was 155, but that afternoon the ''Christena'' had approximately 320 people on board. When the boat was half a mile off of "Nags Head" (a promontory at the southern tip of the southeastern peninsula of St. Kitts), and entering the rougher seas that line up with the channel between the two islands, the ferry boat took on water and sank. Only 91 people survived, and the great majority of those were people that had to be rescued.〔1985, Whitman T. Browne, ''The Christena Disaster: Forty-two Years Later -- Looking Backward, Looking Forward, a Caribbean Story about National Tragedy, The Burden of Colonialism and the Challenge of Change. (), accessed 15 January, 2014〕 After the sinking, 57 bodies were retrieved and identified; 66 bodies were retrieved but were unidentifiable. A number of bodies were trapped inside the sunken wreckage, and these bodies were left in place: "A decision was made to leave the boat and (entrapped ) bodies undisturbed" notes Arthur Anslyn, Captain of the ''Caribe Queen'', who was hired by the Commission of Inquiry to dive the site after August 1".〔Page 310. Some Background, 1985, Whitman T. Browne, ''The Christena Disaster: Forty-two Years Later -- Looking Backward, Looking Forward, a Caribbean Story about National Tragedy, The Burden of Colonialism and the Challenge of Change.(), accessed 15 January, 2014〕〔"Diving the Christena Wreck", The Observer, 26 January, 1997 () accessed 17 January 2014〕 There is a memorial to the disaster on the waterfront in Charlestown, the capital of Nevis; that memorial reads, "In loving memory of all those who lost their lives in the ''Christena'' disaster of August 1st, 1970 R.I.P." There is also a memorial headstone in the cemetery in the village of Bath on Nevis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christena disaster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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