• The MV Princess Ashika was an inter-island ferry which operated in the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga. This motorised vessel (MV) was built in 1972, and...
    18 KB (1,495 words) - 20:10, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMNZS Manawanui (A09)
    ROV operated from the Manawanui returned photos of the wreck of the MV Princess Ashika, which sank near Ha'apai, Tonga on 5 August 2009. The vessel was decommissioned...
    6 KB (461 words) - 10:38, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paul Karalus
    Karalus is a former Tongan Cabinet Minister. He resigned following the MV Princess Ashika disaster. Karalus is from Taranaki. He had worked in airline management...
    10 KB (692 words) - 09:20, 14 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for MV 'Otuanga'ofa
    MV ʻOtu Angaʻofa ("friendly islands") is an inter-island ferry which has operated in Tonga since 2010. It replaced MV Princess Ashika. The ship was built...
    6 KB (452 words) - 16:59, 7 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tavake Barron Afeaki
    He represented Ramsay Dalgety in his perjury trial following the MV Princess Ashika disaster. In June 2017 he was appointed to the Judicial Committee...
    4 KB (334 words) - 17:54, 13 January 2024
  • judge at the Royal Commission of Enquiry into the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika. In May 2012, Shuster completed his second two-year term as a judge...
    2 KB (225 words) - 16:47, 17 January 2022
  • Thumbnail for Ramsay Robertson Dalgety
    evidence to the Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of the ferry MV Princess Ashika. In November 2010 the charge was quashed by the Supreme Court. In...
    5 KB (425 words) - 14:46, 6 June 2023
  • of his vessels was first to reach the scene of the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika and he gave evidence that the ship was unfit to sail. In 2010 he was...
    8 KB (615 words) - 09:12, 28 September 2023
  • Parliament. He also gave evidence at the inquiry into the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika, and managed the subsequent criminal prosecutions. Following the departure...
    7 KB (499 words) - 23:42, 24 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Haʻafeva
    years BP. Haʻafeva was to have been the destination of the ill-fated MV Princess Ashika, an inter-island ferry that sank on 5 August 2009, claiming many lives...
    4 KB (545 words) - 05:51, 22 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for MV Tokelau
    to purchase a replacement. The request was repeated following the Princess Ashika disaster in 2009. The New Zealand government commissioned a report...
    6 KB (553 words) - 02:56, 14 October 2022
  • Enquiry's investigation into the sinking of MV Princess Ashika. The inquiry later found that the Princess Ashika had not been surveyed prior to being purchased...
    10 KB (1,146 words) - 23:42, 24 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sione Vuna Faʻotusia
    counsel to the Shipping Corporation of Polynesia Ltd, owners of the MV Princess Ashika. In January 2019 Faʻotusia was charged with wrongful interference...
    10 KB (714 words) - 21:37, 15 May 2024
  • bodies were not recovered. MV Princess Ashika, a ferry which capsized in Tonga a month later List of maritime disasters MV Butiraoi, an I-Kiribati ferry...
    2 KB (203 words) - 05:58, 30 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Patterson Brothers Shipping Company
    1958-1979 MV Yatu Lau 1969-1983 TSMV Ovalau II 1983-2003 TSMV Jubilee II 1984-1997 MV Princess Ashika 1989–2009 677 GT MV Island Navigator 1999–2008 647 GT...
    9 KB (448 words) - 08:35, 21 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Siosifa Tuʻitupou Tuʻutafaiva
    before the Supreme Court, was a criminal trial over the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika, an inter-island ferry which sank in August 2009 with seventy-four...
    7 KB (578 words) - 14:15, 23 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Sinking of MV Teratai Prima
    The sinking of MV Teratai Prima occurred on 11 January 2009, around 04:00 local time (January 10, 21:00 UTC) when a ferry carrying more than 300 people...
    15 KB (1,733 words) - 16:53, 20 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sinking of MV Dumai Express 10
    The sinking of MV Dumai Express 10 occurred on the morning of 22 November 2009 when a ferry carrying more than 300 people sank near the island of Iyu Kecil...
    23 KB (2,629 words) - 16:17, 4 August 2022
  • Unnamed ferry 26 Jul: Unnamed migrant boat 31 Jul: Langeland 5 Aug Princess Ashika 25 Aug P31 5 Sep: Ilinden 6 Sep: SuperFerry 9 9 Sep: Teh Teh 30 Sep:...
    7 KB (498 words) - 17:39, 26 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for 2009 Lake Ohrid boat accident
    Unnamed ferry 26 Jul: Unnamed migrant boat 31 Jul: Langeland 5 Aug Princess Ashika 25 Aug P31 5 Sep: Ilinden 6 Sep: SuperFerry 9 9 Sep: Teh Teh 30 Sep:...
    7 KB (687 words) - 01:13, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of maritime disasters in the 21st century
    2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-09-23. Odunga, Maureen (29 September 2018). "Mv Nyerere Retrieval Ends". Daily News. Tanzania Standard Newspapers. Retrieved...
    56 KB (1,600 words) - 15:29, 7 May 2024
  • The MV Alam Pintar and FV Etoile des Ondes collision took place in the English Channel in 2009 and involved the Singapore bulk carrier Alam Pintar and...
    20 KB (2,277 words) - 16:56, 19 December 2022
  • December 2009. "7359462". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 18 December 2009. "m.v. DON CARLOS (II)". Mareud. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved...
    10 KB (752 words) - 08:22, 2 May 2024
  • MV Liberty was a Russian cargo ship which was turned into an artificial reef south of Cyprus in 2009. The ship had a gross tonnage of 225 GT, a length...
    3 KB (255 words) - 17:04, 26 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for MV Demas Victory
    MV Demas Victory was a Dubai-based supply ship which sailed to offshore oil and gas platforms. It capsized 10 nautical miles off the coast of the Qatari...
    5 KB (318 words) - 10:33, 12 November 2021
  • MV Coco-4 was a ferry that sunk near Bhola Island, Bangladesh on 27 November 2009, killing 75 people, out of more than a thousand on board, with several...
    3 KB (327 words) - 20:34, 5 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for USS New Orleans (LPD-18)
    deployment. During the final days of the Certification Exercise (CERTEX), an MV-22 assigned to USS Boxer suffered a mishap on short approach to New Orleans...
    19 KB (2,103 words) - 02:19, 22 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for SuperFerry 9
    ship. Captain Yap was among those rescued in the disaster. At 5:20 a.m. the MV Myriad, a cargo ship also owned by Aboitiz, arrived at the scene of the incident...
    18 KB (1,708 words) - 17:50, 11 January 2024
  • the cause of the collision remains undetermined. The ferry involved was the MV Catalyn V, bound for Lubang Island, about 150 kilometers south of Manila....
    1 KB (113 words) - 08:54, 6 December 2022
  • Unnamed ferry 26 Jul: Unnamed migrant boat 31 Jul: Langeland 5 Aug Princess Ashika 25 Aug P31 5 Sep: Ilinden 6 Sep: SuperFerry 9 9 Sep: Teh Teh 30 Sep:...
    3 KB (258 words) - 06:03, 30 August 2023