The Iceship Alliance
The secret plan to build an aircraft carrier out of ice
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The incredible true story of how Churchill approved a plan to build giant, bulletproof aircraft carriers made of ice.
"The Iceship Alliance – The secret plan to build an aircraft carrier out of ice" reveals one of the most audacious and bizarre engineering projects of World War II: Project Habakkuk. British inventor Geoffrey Pyke convinced Winston Churchill that steel was too scarce, but ice was plentiful. He proposed building massive, 2,000-foot-long unsinkable islands made of "Pykrete"—a bulletproof mixture of ice and wood pulp.
Author Arthur Chill chronicles the secret tests in Canada, where officers fired pistols at blocks of ice to prove their strength (one bullet ricocheted and hit an admiral). The book details the serious scientific effort to refrigerate the Atlantic Ocean to fight German U-boats.
"The Iceship Alliance" is a tribute to the desperate creativity of war. It shows how even the maddest ideas were given a chance in the face of Nazi aggression, and how a ship made of frozen water almost became the superweapon of the Allies.
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Arthur Chill
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Project Habakkuk WWII Geoffrey Pyke Pykrete Military History Innovation Absurdity