Yet while generations have remembered the names of the victims, fewer people have studied the remarkable document that followed—the 1970 Commission of Inquiry Report. Unlike many disaster investigations that focus on one isolated event, this inquiry examined years of operational practices leading up to the tragedy. It was the economic and social lifeline between St. Kitts and Nevis. The Commission painstakingly compiled lists of those identified, those reported missing, survivors and witnesses who testified before the inquiry. The Enduring LegacyFifty-five years later, the MV Christena Commission of Inquiry remains one of the most important official documents ever produced in St. Kitts and Nevis.