Behold: Project Habakkuk, the most gigantic carrier ever concieved

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Generally, with these kinds of projects, there's a good reason why they weren't built.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk#cite_note-13

A length of 1200 meters and a width of 180 meters...
It's true that Wiki says 1200m, but other sources say 2000ft.
http://www.thewarillustrated.info/230/strange-story-of-hms-habbakuk.asp said:
A gigantic aircraft carrier, 2,000 feet long, 300 feet across the beam and 200 feet in depth
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http://www.goodeveca.net/CFGoodeve/bergship.html said:
Bergships and Pykrete
— Notes from a 1946 lecture by Max Perutz —
In November 1946, the man who did most of the original research on Pykrete (and who bestowed its name), Max Perutz, gave a talk to the British Glaciological Society in which he detailed its physical properties and its possible use for building "Bergships". (Interestingly he never mentions the name "Habakkuk".) The paper wasn't published in the Society's journal until a year and a half later, but reading it now demolishes a lot of the mythology that has grown up around Pykrete and Project Habakkuk.
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Hollow, but with 9m thick hull walls, the craft would have to provide a 600m long runway.
600m is very close to 2000ft

I'd trust a guy involved in the design over a sensationalist article entitled 'Grotesque War Machines, Crazy Weapons' in German!!
 
It's true that Wiki says 1200m, but other sources say 2000ft.

and

600m is very close to 2000ft

I'd trust a guy involved in the design over a sensationalist article entitled 'Grotesque War Machines, Crazy Weapons' in German!!

I think the 1200m is just one of the versions they discussed, nd the 600m is what they settled on. I just brought it up because well, they thought about building a 1200m ship at one point.
 
I swear if I hadn't been told its name or Churchills involvement Id believe this was a Hitler unspeakable Mammal weapon
 
The fundamental flaw of Habbakkuk is that it came out of a shortage of steel for shipbuilding, the hope being that by using ice they could bypass that shortage. But it turned out to need more steel than a conventional fleet carrier, and much of that would be in small-bore (i.e. expensive to make and fit) refrigeration pipes.
 
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