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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Cross, L. D. (L. Dyan), 1949-     Subjects     Pyke, Geoffrey.     Habbakuk Project.     Aircraft carriers -- Design and construction -- History.     Ice strengthened vessels -- Design and construction -- History.     Military research -- Canada -- Alberta -- Patricia Lake.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cross, L. D. (L. Dyan), 1949-       by title:      Code name Habbakuk :...       by call number:      623.8255 C951c     Search the Web     Cross, L. D. (L. Dyan), 1949-     Pyke, Geoffrey.     Habbakuk Project.     Aircraft carriers -- Design and construction -- History.     Ice strengthened vessels -- Design and construction -- History.     Military research -- Canada -- Alberta -- Patricia Lake.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.       MARC Display

Code name Habbakuk : a secret ship made of ice / L.D. Cross. by Cross, L. D. (L. Dyan), 1949- Heritage House, 2012. Call #: 623.8255 C951c Subjects Pyke, Geoffrey.   Habbakuk Project.   Aircraft carriers -- Design and construction -- History.   Ice strengthened vessels -- Design and construction -- History.   Military research -- Canada -- Alberta -- Patricia Lake.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations. Series Amazing stories (Victoria, B.C.) ISBN:  9781927051474 (paperback) Description:  137 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-133) and index. Summary:  "In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill had to find a solution to the carnage or the Nazis would be victorious. With the support of Churchill and Lord Louis Mountbatten, eccentric inventor and amateur spy Geoffrey Pyke proposed a dramatic project to build invincible ships of ice - massive, unsinkable aircraft carriers that would roam the mid-Atlantic servicing fighter planes and bombers on missions to protect shipping from predatory U-boat wolf packs. This is the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Project Habbakuk and how an outlandish inventor, the British Navy, the National Research Council of Canada and a workforce of conscientious objectors tested the bizarre concept in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, far from the theatre of war"--Publisher's description. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 623.8255 C951c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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