MV Pemba

MV "Pemba" is a Lake Victoria ferry that was operated by the Uganda Railways Corporation. Registered in Port Bell, Uganda, the ship's regular route was between Port Bell and Mwanza, in Tanzania.
2005 incident.
At about 0300 hrs on 8 May 2005 "Pemba" was "en route" to Mwanza in Tanzania when her sister ships and collided with each other. "Pemba" received a distress call, put about, and reached the scene of the collision "one and a half hours" later. "Kabalega" was sinking so "Pemba" positioned herself alongside, rescued her eight officers and 16 crew and landed them back at Port Bell in Uganda. 
It was later established that all three Ugandan vessels; "Kaawa", "Kabalega" and "Pemba" had no marine insurance at the time of the accident. The insurance policy for the three vessels had expired in December 2004 and had not been renewed. After the collision "Kaawa" was withdrawn from service for repairs to her bow and "Pemba" was suspended from service, due to lack of radar and other modern navigational aids.
Proposed return to service.
In September 2005 Uganda's minister of works, John Nasasira, claimed that structural repairs "Kaawa"'s collision damage and to her sister ship "Pemba" were almost complete but that 3.4 billion Ugandan Shillings (approx. US$1.85 million at that time), was needed "to fully repair and maintain, class and insure the vessels". By October 2009 the two ferries were still out of service but Nasasira claimed the Government would recondition both vessels and would return "Pemba" to service in 2010 and "Kaawa" in 2011. As of August 2018, both MV Kaawa and MV Pemba remain unrepaired and out of service.