Weaseal inventor

[Tony B]

A right oddball. BBC Radio 7 Thursday. the 1 hour drama, Habakkuk on Ice. about Gefforey Pyke, inventor of the Weaseal and the ice battleship.

[Enigma]

Actually it was a Aircraft carrier made out of ice....now that was a cool idea.

[ArtistsRifles]

Project Habbakuk. The raw matererial was known as Pycrete - a mix of ice and wood pulp/sawdust. The stprygoes Lord Mountbatten demonstrated it to Churchill by firing his revolver at a block of ice and then a block of Pycrete. The ice shattered whilst the Pycrete absorbed the round.

There's a TV series called "The SeaHunters" about a team who research historically important wrecks - one of the program's has them on the great Lakes of Canada looking for the prototype used to test the viability of Habbakuk.

[abn deuce]

:tup: He had some wild idea's but they were proved sound ones just like the British scientist who invented the bomb for the dam busters at first glance people thought them nuts but these things did work.

[Tony B]

Project Habbakuk. The raw matererial was known as Pycrete - a mix of ice and wood pulp/sawdust. The stprygoes Lord Mountbatten demonstrated it to Churchill by firing his revolver at a block of ice and then a block of Pycrete. The ice shattered whilst the Pycrete absorbed the round.

There's a TV series called "The SeaHunters" about a team who research historically important wrecks - one of the program's has them on the great Lakes of Canada looking for the prototype used to test the viability of Habbakuk.

 

And according to the programme the bullet richoceted and hit a US General in the leg :-D