VOEA Savea (P203) was a Pacific Forum patrol vessel operated by the Tongan Maritime Force from 1989 to April 2019.

[1][2] Savea was replaced in June 2019 by VOEA Ngahau Koula, which was designed and built for the Tonga Maritime Force by Australia.

[3] When the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea extended maritime nations' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to 200 kilometres (120 mi), Australia designed and built 22 patrol vessels for 12 of its fellow members of the Pacific Forum.

This allowed its neighbour to exercise sovereignty over their EEZ, intercept smugglers, and poaching fishers, and provide emergency services.

[5][6] In 1999 Savea carried scientists from the Ministry of Land, Survey, and Natural Resources to study a volcano that emerged from the ocean in early January 1999.