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Peter Warner, Seafarer Who Discovered Shipwrecked Boys, Dies at 90 That story, which has sometimes been called a real-life “Lord of the Flies,” was just one episode in a life filled with adventure. The sailor Peter Warner, third from left, in 1968 with members of his crew, which included the six Tongan teenagers he had rescued from an island in the South Pacific two years earlier.Credit.John Raymond Elliott/Fairfax Media, via Getty Images April 22, 2021, 1:18 p.m. ET Peter Warner, an Australian seafarer whose already eventful life was made even more so in 1966 when he and his crew discovered six shipwrecked boys who had been living on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific for 15 months, died on April 13 in Ballina, New South Wales. He was 90. ....
Tongan Teens Marooned on a Pacific Island Author: I ve spent half a century (yikes) writing for radio and print mostly print. I hope to be still tapping the keys as I take my last breath. Half a dozen teenage boys who were enrolled in a boarding school in Tonga decided to run away. They stole a boat with the plan to sail to Fiji or New Zealand, but their adventure went horribly wrong. Isolated Ata Island rises from the gloom in the Pacific Ocean. Setting Sail for Fiji Fed up with the regimentation and strict discipline of the Catholic boarding school they attended, the six Tongan teenage boys conspired to escape. In June 1965, they stole a 25-foot sail boat and set off. Their names were Sione Fataua, “Stephen” Tevita Fatai Latu, “David” Tevita Fifita Siola’a, Kolo Fekitoa, “Mano” Sione Filipe Totau, and Luke Veikoso. ....