{"id":8208,"date":"2012-03-19T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/for-sale-100m-fast-catamaran-as-new-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:57:00","slug":"for-sale-100m-fast-catamaran-as-new-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/03\/for-sale-100m-fast-catamaran-as-new-2\/","title":{"rendered":"For sale: 100m Fast Catamaran. As new"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/resources0.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/03\/18\/1226303\/352008-catamaran.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/resources0.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/03\/18\/1226303\/352008-catamaran.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>source: The Australian<\/p>\n<p>DEFENCE Minister Stephen Smith&#8217;s push to buy a giant high-speed navy catamaran capable of carrying more than 300 troops to a disaster zone or regional conflict has been quietly shelved. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Smith ordered Defence to investigate the potential purchase of a fast catamaran last year to ensure there was no repeat of the Cyclone Yasi debacle, when navy did not have any amphibious ships available to assist in the clean-up from the February 2011 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The 100m fast catamaran would have given the navy the ability to move troops and vehicles at a speed of about 35 knots to a range of up to 1500km.<\/p>\n<p>It would also have been a major boost to local shipbuilders, Incat in Hobart or Austal in Mr Smith&#8217;s home town of Perth, which both produce large high-speed catamarans for the US navy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/defence\/smith-quietly-sinks-fast-cat-buy\/story-e6frg8yo-1226303289883\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source: The Australian DEFENCE Minister Stephen Smith&#8217;s push to buy a giant high-speed navy catamaran capable of carrying more than 300 troops to a disaster zone or regional conflict has been quietly shelved. Mr Smith ordered Defence to investigate the potential purchase of a fast catamaran last year to ensure there was no repeat of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","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=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}