Cat-Link V
High-speed craft, HSC ''Skane Jet'' is an Incat-built, ocean-going catamaran. It is one of the world's fastest car carrying passenger vessels and, as ''Cat-Link V'', set the eastbound record for the Blue Riband, fastest transatlantic journey. In 1998/1999, the ship sailed as ''Cat-Link V'' on the Århus-Kalundborg route in Denmark—then operated by Scandlines. From 1999 to 2005 it sailed as ''Mads Mols'' for Mols-linien. From 2005 to 2006 it was renamed ''Incat 049'' by T&T Ferries in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2006 it was renamed ''Master Cat'' and has since been operating on the route between Kristiansand in Norway and Hanstholm in Denmark, later changed to Hirtshals, in the service of "Master Ferries". This company was merged with Fjord Line on 1 January 2008 and the ferry was renamed ''Fjord Cat''. The ship has been renamed "Skane Jet" as part of its relocation for the Königslinie route between Sassnitz and Ystad for FRS. This route started service in late September 2020. Si ...
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Puss In Boots
"Puss in Boots" ( it, Il gatto con gli stivali) is an Italian fairy tale, later spread throughout the rest of Europe, about an anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master. The oldest written telling is by Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola, who included it in his ''The Facetious Nights of Straparola'' (c. 1550–1553) in XIV–XV. Another version was published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile with the title ''Cagliuso'', and a tale was written in French at the close of the seventeenth century by Charles Perrault (1628–1703), a retired civil servant and member of the ''Académie française''. There is a version written by Girolamo Morlini, from whom Straparola used various tales in ''The Facetious Nights of Straparola''. The tale appeared in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript two years before its 1697 publication by Barbin in a collection of eight fairy tales ...
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