{"id":3441,"date":"2012-05-26T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2012-05-26T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T10:29:00","slug":"luxury-expedition-vessels-missions-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/05\/luxury-expedition-vessels-missions-of-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury expedition vessel&#8217;s missions of mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources0.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/05\/24\/1226363\/835832-120526-t-jerry-the-guide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/resources0.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/05\/24\/1226363\/835832-120526-t-jerry-the-guide.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>THINK of North Star Cruises, the Broome-based company that pioneered adventure cruising along Western Australia&#8217;s Kimberley coast more than 25 years ago, and luxury immediately comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Craig Howson wanted a vessel in a class of its own to carry just 36 passengers and a crew of 20 when he ordered the purpose-built 50m mono-hull True North.<\/p>\n<p>Looking like a super yacht from a James Bond movie, True North has a sundeck, a forward observation lounge, alfresco bar and a fine-dining room with enormous windows that offer uninterrupted views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/travel\/luxury-expedition-vessels-missions-of-mercy\/story-e6frg8rf-1226366053023\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?app_id=259616500730113&#038;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expeditioncruising.com%2F&#038;send=false&#038;layout=box_count&#038;width=450&#038;show_faces=true&#038;action=like&#038;colorscheme=light&#038;font&#038;height=90\" style=\"border: none; height: 90px; overflow: hidden; width: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THINK of North Star Cruises, the Broome-based company that pioneered adventure cruising along Western Australia&#8217;s Kimberley coast more than 25 years ago, and luxury immediately comes to mind. Owner Craig Howson wanted a vessel in a class of its own to carry just 36 passengers and a crew of 20 when he ordered the purpose-built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[327,328],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-north-star-cruises","tag-true-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}