{"id":1748,"date":"2011-12-08T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2011-12-08T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T13:20:00","slug":"hmcs-kingston-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"HMCS Kingston, Back To work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi7yYhoNTPEV-jZ-rU6lKVUCZoULiNZ4CRowvwrtdYob76Tq7kHkqFr0TOsdCI6us7dA9CUFhUrZHR6cLT1bHGeuCrmQfy2NIWFDYYmmzKFow1evDNmR1Z2wyyAgT_oFdMj9aMKCzuxJW9F\/s1600\/mm700.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi7yYhoNTPEV-jZ-rU6lKVUCZoULiNZ4CRowvwrtdYob76Tq7kHkqFr0TOsdCI6us7dA9CUFhUrZHR6cLT1bHGeuCrmQfy2NIWFDYYmmzKFow1evDNmR1Z2wyyAgT_oFdMj9aMKCzuxJW9F\/s400\/mm700.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After a period of layup and then maintenance, HMCS Kingston sailed yesterday presumably for some trials. She spent a portion of the last night anchored in the Basin. The 12 Kingston Class vessels were built as Minesweepers, But also excel as Survey and diving platforms &#8211; Their main issue is their slow speed &#8211; about 15 knots, which is required for mine-sweeping, but limits their usefulness in other duties.<\/p>\n<p>As A result, a Proposed mid life refit was shelved, and the MCDV&#8217;s will likely have a shorter then normal life. MCDV Refers to their designation as Maritime Coastal Defense Vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a period of layup and then maintenance, HMCS Kingston sailed yesterday presumably for some trials. She spent a portion of the last night anchored<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy","category-refit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}