If even a fraction of the missing are confirmed dead, Guyana’s toll will surpass 100 – a number no other Caribbean maritime disaster has approached in more than half a century. The Caribbean’s worst maritime disaster was the Christena of NevisAs comparisons between the two disasters have circulated online, a persistent claim has taken hold: that both ferries were built in Guyana. The MV Christena was indeed built in Georgetown, then the capital of British Guiana, constructed by Sprostons Limited and completed in 1959 for the government of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla. Both vessels, in other words, are woven into Guyana’s maritime history – just not in the way the online rumor suggests. Fifty-six years after Christena forced the region to confront how little accountability existed for who boards a government ferry, Guyana is being asked the same question again.