Rum Ration
Episode 56 - Project Habakkuk: Churchill’s Iceberg Navy
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In 1942, with German U-boats ravaging Allied shipping in the North Atlantic, Britain faced a brutal problem: how to close the Mid-Atlantic Gap without enough steel to build more carriers. Enter Geoffrey Pyke, a brilliant and eccentric inventor with an idea so strange it almost worked—build a massive aircraft carrier out of ice.
In this episode of The Rum Ration, Rejoy and Colin dive into…