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My son was telling me that the Allies in WW2 toyed with the idea of building aircraft carriers from ice. They never followed thru apparently. Anyone heard anything about this? He says that they planned to mix sawdust into the ice as insulation. The “carrier” would be unsinkable since ice floats. I can't imagine the crew accommodations tho
That's really something. I looked into it and it was a British idea called Project HabakkukProject Habakkuk[/wiki]. This blog here says the idea was backed by Churchill and others, but in the end it was abandoned…and that the idea was rather preposterous anyway!
Well, didn't they used to use sawdust as insulation for ice to keep it from melting (e.g. in ice boxes)? Then I suppose they figured they could use nature to their advantage. If you think of it it's pretty interesting…if they could have moved it they could have had massive bases to launch aircraft from at only the cost of setting it up and floating it through the ocean.
