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With an icy hull 12 metres thick, it would be unsinkable.

He imagined bergships, as he called them, 600 metres long and 100 metres wide. Pyke named the idea Habbakuk, after the biblical prophet who foretold amazing works (though he misspelled the name). In September 1942, he sent a 232-page memo to Lord Louis Mountbatten, head of combined operations, describing his plan for aircraft carriers made of ice. Absent-minded, forthright, manic and keen to help the war effort, he had already put forward a plan to harry the Nazi occupiers of Norway using snowmobiles propelled by giant screws. Geoffrey Pyke was the very model of the eccentric scientist.

Aircraft carriers might have solved the problem, but they were too precious and vulnerable to be risked in mid-Atlantic patrols, so convoys remained exposed.įor one man, the solution was clear. Long, grinding and grim, the Battle of the Atlantic featured some of the war’s great scientific innovations, such as sonar and short-wave radar.Īircraft were effective U-boat hunters, but their limited range left a gap in the mid-Atlantic where the subs could prowl freely. So threatening were the attacks by German submarines that the prime minister feared the country would starve. During the second world war, Britain relied on essential supplies shipped over from the US and the Germans knew it. WINSTON CHURCHILL said it was the only thing that ever really frightened him. (Image: National Research Council of Canada) Nautical but ice: the ice ship was made in Canada

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