The tonga boys were 15 to 17. (Wikipedia) > From June 1965 to September 11, 1966, six Tongan youths, Sione Fataua (17, the eldest), "Stephen" Tevita Fatai Latu

The tonga boys were 15 to 17. (Wikipedia) > From June 1965 to September 11, 1966, six Tongan youths, Sione Fataua (17, the eldest), "Stephen" Tevita Fatai Latu (17), "David" Tevita Fifita Siolaʻa (15, the youngest), Kolo Fekitoa (17), "Mano" Sione Filipe Totau (16), and Luke Veikoso (16, later a boxing champion),[15] all natives of Haʻafeva island, were shipwrecked on ʻAta after running away from their strict Catholic boarding school, St. Andrew's College,[16] in Nukuʻalofa on Tongatapu.