The Titilupe is a small motor yacht used by the Royal family of Tonga as a Royal Yacht. It is officially assigned to the Tongan Maritime Force; division of the Tonga Defence Services. Under Sālote Tupou III, the yacht's earlier predecessor was the 108-ton schooner Hifofua, which was sold in Fiji in the early 1970's after the death of the Queen. Following the sale of the Hifofua, the Sprucebank was used as the Royal Yacht, for some ten years. In the late 1980s, Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV bought a new yacht, and in honor of Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita, it was named Titilupe.