{"id":111900,"date":"2020-08-25T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/this-little-baby-boat-may-be-the-smallest-ship-in-the-navy"},"modified":"2020-08-25T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T19:23:12","slug":"this-little-baby-boat-may-be-the-smallest-ship-in-the-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/this-little-baby-boat-may-be-the-smallest-ship-in-the-navy","title":{"rendered":"This Little Baby Boat May Be the Smallest Ship in the Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-little-baby-boat-may-be-the-smallest-ship-in-the-navy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An adorable little tugboat as long as a Ford F-150 is making the rounds on social media, prompting many to call it the \u201csmallest ship in the U.S. Navy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At just 19 feet long, the boat is actually \u201cBoomin Beaver\u201d security tug. Originally built to herd logs in waterways, the Navy boat is now an all-purpose vessel that can tow small ships and deploy floating security fences, ensuring that larger submarines, destroyers, and even aircraft carriers don\u2019t receive unwanted visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u2693\ufe0f You like badass boats (no matter how small). So do we. Let\u2019s nerd out over them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An adorable little tugboat as long as a Ford F-150 is making the rounds on social media, prompting many to call it the \u201csmallest ship in the U.S. Navy.\u201d At just 19 feet long, the boat is actually \u201cBoomin Beaver\u201d security tug. Originally built to herd logs in waterways, the Navy boat is now an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}