Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct what from ice?
Project Habakkuk Project Habakkuk Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (a common misspelling) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice) for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time. The idea came from Geoffrey Pyke, who worked for Combined Operations Headquarters. After promising scale tests and the creation of a prototype on a lake in Alberta, Canada, the project was shelved due to rising costs, added requirements, and the availability of longer-range aircraft and
Project Habakkuk addition, Mountbatten himself withdrew from the project. The final meeting of the Habakkuk board took place in December 1943. It was officially concluded that "The large Habbakuk II made of pykrete has been found to be impractical because of the enormous production resources required and technical difficulties involved." The use of ice had actually been falling out of favour before that, and other ideas for "floating islands" had been considered, such as welding Liberty Ships or landing craft together ("Project TENTACLE"). It took three hot summers to completely melt the prototype constructed in Canada. Perutz wrote that he stayed in