MV Pemba is a Lake Victoria ferry that was operated by the Uganda Railways Corporation.

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.

[3] It was later established that all three Ugandan vessels; Kaawa, Kabalega and Pemba had no marine insurance at the time of the accident.

[4][5] 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 USh 3.4 billion (approx.