A view of the Christena Memorial on the Charlestown waterfront on Nevis, looking north towards St. Kitts. Nags head visible in the distance on the left. Part of the Alexander Hamilton house is visible on the right, 2014.
The Christena disaster was a ferry boat shipwreck with 233 casualties[1] that occurred on 1 August 1970 between the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis in the Leeward Islands, West Indies.
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