Tongan Maritime Force
| Tongan Maritime Force | |
|---|---|
The Tongan patrol boat VOEA Ngahau Siliva P302 at Henderson, Western Australia | |
| Active | 10 August 2020 |
| Country | Tonga |
| Branch | His Majesty's Armed Forces of Tonga |
| Type | Maritime patrol |
| Role | Maritime interdiction Visit, board, search, and seizure Maritime search and rescue Law enforcement Support amphibious landing operations |
| Size | 140 personnel |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Commander Taniela Tuita |
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The Tongan Maritime Force is the sea arm of His Majesty's Armed Forces of Tonga. Its primary roles include maritime patrol, search and rescue, law enforcement and supporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief across Tonga's vast exclusive economic zone.
Tonga is an island country in Polynesia, The country is made up of 171 islands of which 45 are inhabited, Tonga was first inhabited about 400 years BC and grew into a regional power. It was a thalassocracy that conquered and controlled unprecedented swathes of the Pacific, including parts of the Solomon Islands and the whole of New Caledonia and Fiji in the west to Samoa and Niue its military history is of expeditionary warfare from the Sea, up to European discovery in 1616 and the bringing of Christianity to the Tonga Islands.