Project Habakkuk: The INSANE Aircraft Carrier Made From Ice

Howard Hughes: "I'll solve the U-boat problem with a huge-ass flying boat". Geoffrey Pyke: "You call yourself an eccentric!"

bro use metric, we are not feet kinky, the world doesn’t understand that system

"soon encountered rough waters..." 😂 that one was almost too easy!

Where did they plan to get the engines to drive that behemoth?

Hab a kkuk

Surprisingly genius. Until it melts.

Only the British could have taken such an idea as to build an aircraft carrier out of ice seriously. I can't imagine it was ever expected to be in use beyond a relatively short prediction for the end of the war. If analysts had predicted a need for it to be in use for any real length of time the costs may have been justified. I guess it was simply a case of the desperate times calling for desperate measures.

Any chance of getting a future video on the Los Vegas Sphere? I'm so interested in it, but I'm just waiting for someone I trust to make a video on it!

For the love of God, it was Poles, not anybody else who cracked the enigma code: Różalski, Rejewski and Zygalski🇵🇱🥳

Who's going to tell him the globe slowly heats

As if Admiral King didn’t hate the Royal Navy enough even before he was shot at by Mountbatten.

Hunter biden endorses ice

In retrospect, it does appear to be the ideal project to draw NAZI spies away from more important efforts.

Anyone who wants to know what might have happened if Habakkuk had been built should check out the book "My Tank is Fight!" by Zack Parsons. The book goes into what might have happened if all of World War II's wild weapons had been built.

The US was working on that as well

Wow! Id never heard that Admiral King was the officer who got hit by the ricochet! He already hated the British. 😂😂😂

One mistake in this video! Not British, but Polish broke the enigma code! It was 3 mathematicians: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski. These three decoded it on Polish soil, then were transported to France first, and then to UK where they finished the work. So don't spread the lie!

Actually, if his intentions were to piss off Adm. King, all he had to do was hold his mouth wrong, or worse just show up.

A study indicated that if we colonise the solar system, pykrete will be the ideal material to build bases. Water is available and CO2 can be generated from carbonaceous asteroids. Bamboo would be cultivated in greenhouses and convert that CO2 into fibrous reinforcing material. The main idea is to use it for bases on asteroids in the main belt, where no cooling would be required, but it could also be used for free-floating structures, and closer to the Sun with a sunshield. All else that would be required is a thin impermeable layer on the outside to prevent water loss due to sublimation, and some insulation on the inside in habitation areas.

Why not pykrete skirts for the transport ships instead of full ships

Don't tell 'em your plan, Pyke!

thats the best business...sell ice-cream to the world direct from source

Muy pronto va a salir un libro que va cambiar el mundo... esten pendiente

I'm looking forward to watching all of these videos.
Could you please do one on the spad 13 .maybe include how the French designed a method to fire air to air rockets to help take down hot air balloons.
I can't imagine how those pilots managed air combat without tearing their wings apart from the g forces vs materials used to build their planes.
Thank you for the videos!

I am a history nut and have never heard of this!! Any movies/long docs on this? Books??

I actually did my senior science fair project about this ship. I scientifically proved it could be done, and I even built a (very small) replica of it. Best ... project ... ever. Still lost the fair though.

It was doomed to fail as everyone knows, the British don't like ice in their drinks!😂

Not enough Simon in my life.

Woo, Alberta represent!

Pycrete was the best bit of Braniac on sky. I'm glad more are hearing about it

Why did they not use these in the Iraq war???

Metric! Nobody uses their dirty feet to measure things!

not gonna lie, its actually a pretty good initial idea that was worth the effort investigating

Дякую 👍

The best part is no need to go to the shops and buy ice for your whiskey!

Why the name?

Imagine storming into the vacation home of your prime minister and throwing a chunk of frozen sawdust in his hot bath with him 😒 Think we've gotten a little soft with our politicians as of late

"Turning the massive hull into the wind at only six knots might not have always been possible... after a year marine growth on the hull would reduce the maximum speed to 4.75 knots making the vessel unmanoeuvrable... the inability to enter any dry dock meant that even the need to clean marine growth of the vast wooden hull underwater would have required an expensive and difficult solution. Habbakuk was a wartime 'mad idea' that was taken further than it deserved because it attracted the interest of men in high places that should have known better." David Hobbs, British aircraft carriers design, development and service histories page 174.
Despite all this I am still disappointed we never got it

Ok Simon im going to take you to task about the opening 10 seconds.....The Kriegsmarine were not in anyway challenging the RN supremacy during the the "Battle of the Atlantic".
The Germans had very few uboats at the start of WWII and the KM's torpedoes were very unreliable as like everybody elses magnetic detonators they were notoriously unreliable. So they were infact doing a far worse job than the German Navy of WWI, which had better used better tactics in using submarine laid mines to do far more damage to merchant shipping and lost fewer submarines in comparison to ships sunk.
So the KM had not leaned from their war experience from WWI in that their standard Type VII submarines were not well equipped for laying mines.

Is the photo of Pyke just a slightly photoshopped pic of Simon? It is isn’t it!? 😂

I used to be a tour guide and I drove past Patricia Lake twice a week so I'm pretty familiar with the story. The main reason why it never got the final greenlight was there simply was not enough pulp to make all the necessary pykrete and the carriers were only going to have a top speed of like 6 knots. The idea was to have several of these in the atlantic and have them as essentially movable islands. Aircraft ranges were increasing/conventional ship building particularly in America moving a long at a breakneck speed and the fact that the allies simply couldn't provide enough pulp was why Habakkuk was canceled.

That said the amount of damage one of these hypothetical ships would be able to withstand would be impressive, providing the compressor unit to make more ice remained operational.

The history of Project Habakkuk is remember with far more than just an old sign, in the Jasper Museum they have extensive amounts of information on Habakkuk. Most of the research from the books written on Habakkuk is stored at the Jasper Museum.

"That's not the same iceberg aircraft carrier in the thumbnail" 😂

Air is also indestructible.
Ever seen anyone destroy air by cutting, shooting or nuking it? Me neither!
We should make airplanes out of air!

if that Ship added to Modern Warships it will be insane

it would be quite feasible today but no one wants to design it, not hard, then again i have autism asperger`s specifically. You could utilize tungsten alloy plated cooling tubes for good thermal conductivity, a solar powerplant barge as well as conventional powerplant barges. There's a whole lot more i'm honestly just hoping someone asks me to make something because i am bored and need a challenge.

And I'm sure 1 of the Mountbatten's (Albert Sax Coburg) gave SFW's (TFE) patent to Heinkel 🤔🤔
Berty wanted that Kaizer Throne of Prussia 👀

There's an Old Testament Prophet by the name of Habakkuk. His story is found in a book by his name. Is there any connection or inspiration in that book to this story?

Global warming would like a word with that icecarrier.