In the early months of the Second World War, German U-Boats were wreaking havoc against Allied shipping in the North Atlantic. Convoys from the United States especially suffered while German submarine ...

Project Habakkuk was a wartime British plan to build giant aircraft carriers out of pykrete, a strange mix of ice and wood pulp that was stronger and slower to melt than ordinary ice. Backed at the ...

During World War II, Britain conceived an extraordinary plan to build an aircraft carrier out of ice, known as Project Habakkuk. Designed to solve the problem of mid-Atlantic air coverage, the ship ...

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