Editing MV Doña Paz (section)

===Casualties===
In the initial announcement made by Sulpicio Lines, the official passenger manifest of ''Doña Paz'' recorded 1,493 passengers and 59 crew members aboard.<ref name="pdi3"/><ref name="nyt2"/> According to Sulpicio Lines, the ferry was able to carry 1,424 passengers.<ref name="nyt1"/> A revised manifest released on December 23, 1987, showed 1,583 passengers and 58 crew members on ''Doña Paz'', with 675 persons boarding the ferry in Tacloban, and 908 coming aboard in Catbalogan.<ref name="pdi4">{{cite news|author1=Acosta, Omar|author2=Veridiano, Dave|author3=Lirio, Gerry|name-list-style=amp|title=238 Bodies Washed Ashore in Mindoro|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=December 24, 1987}}</ref> However, an anonymous official of Sulpicio Lines told [[United Press International|UPI]] that, since it was the Christmas season, tickets were usually purchased illegally aboard the ship at a cheaper rate, and those passengers were not listed on the manifest.<ref name="pdi3"/> The same official added that holders of complimentary tickets and non-paying children younger than the age of four were not listed on the manifest.<ref name="pdi3"/><ref name="nyt7">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/world/bodies-of-133-found-from-ferry-disaster-the-filipinos-report.html |date=December 27, 1987|agency=Associated Press |title=Bodies of 133 Found From Ferry Disaster, The Filipinos Report|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=January 26, 2023 }}</ref>

Of the 21 bodies that had been recovered and identified as passengers on the ship five days after the accident, only one of the fatalities was listed on the official manifest. Of the 26 passengers who survived, only five were listed on the manifest.<ref>{{cite news |title=300 More Charred Victims Retrieved |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=December 26, 1987 }}</ref>

On December 28, 1987, [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|Representative]] [[Raul Daza]] of [[Legislative districts of Northern Samar|Northern Samar]] claimed that at least 2,000 passengers aboard ''Doña Paz'' were not on the ship's manifest.<ref name=pdi9>{{cite news|author=Ed Perpena & Dave Veridiano|title=2,000 on Ship Not on Manifest|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=December 29, 1987}}</ref> He based that number on a list of names furnished by relatives and friends of missing people believed aboard the ferry, the names having been compiled by radio and television stations in Tacloban.<ref name=pdi9/> The names of these 2,000-plus missing passengers were published in pages 29 to 31 of the December 29, 1987, edition of the ''[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]''. At least 79 public school teachers perished in the collision.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ordoñez|first=Lynette|title=Missing tutors' kin to get due|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8cBNEdFwSQkC&dat=19880110&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|access-date=February 12, 2020|work=Manila Standard|publisher=Standard Publications, Inc.|date=January 10, 1988|page=1}}</ref>

During February 1988 the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation stated, on the basis of interviews with relatives, that there were at least 3,099 passengers and 59 crew aboard, giving 3,134 on-board fatalities.<ref>{{cite news |title=3,159 people were on 'Dona Paz'|publisher=Lloyd's List|date=February 24, 1988}}</ref> During January 1999 a presidential task force report estimated, on the basis of court records and more than 4,100 settlement claims, that there were 4,342 passengers.<ref>{{cite news |title=Official 'Dona Paz' toll exceeds 4,300|publisher=Lloyd's List|date=January 26, 1989}}</ref> Subtracting the 26 surviving passengers, and adding 58 crew, gives 4,374 on-board fatalities, almost three times the [[design load]]; adding the 11 dead from the crew of ''Vector'', the total becomes 4,385.<ref name="Hooke"/>