• 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    He represented Ramsay Dalgety in his perjury trial following the MV Princess Ashika disaster. In June 2017 he was appointed to the Judicial Committee...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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