Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a...
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Geoffrey Pyke (section Project Habakkuk)
the newly invented material, pykrete, for the construction of the ship Habakkuk. Pyke's father, Lionel Edward Pyke, was a Jewish lawyer who died when Pyke...
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except that it was for Project Habakkuk. — Perutz, Max, I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier Perutz would later learn that Project Habakkuk was the plan to build...
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writing. Habakkuk may also refer to: Habakkuk Commentary, a Dead Sea scroll Habakkuk and the Angel, a sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini Project Habakkuk, an...
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from ice reinforced with sawdust (Project Habakkuk). A model was made, and serious consideration was given to the project, with a design displacing 2.2 million...
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a storm event or create a hazard. During World War II, the British Project Habakkuk proposed the construction of aircraft carriers made of ice-like Pykrete...
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company was also involved in the ill-fated World War 2 experiment Project Habakkuk. In 1907 a department of the Royal Securities Corporation with three...
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battleship Malta-class aircraft carrier Type 43 destroyer Type 82 destroyer Project Habakkuk Huff-Daland XB-1 Douglas Y1B-7 Fokker XB-8 Boeing Y1B-9 Douglas YB-11...
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seadrome project for transatlantic airways (1943) Leonard H. Quick; Seadrome: phase 1 report Aircraft carrier Lily and Clover Project Habakkuk F.P.1, 1937...
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Mid-Ocean Escort Force Mid-Ocean Meeting Point GIUK gap CAM ship MAC ship Project Habakkuk "- YouTube". www.youtube.com. 3 April 2025. Retrieved 5 May 2025. Bowyer...
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carrier Very large floating structure Floating airport Supercarrier Project Habakkuk Sea-based X-band Radar Battle Island Popular Mechanics, April 2003...
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development of tank-landing ships. Another project Mountbatten proposed to Churchill was Project Habakkuk. It was to be an unsinkable 600-metre aircraft...
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on the island of Vågsøy to destroy fish oil factories and stocks. Project Habakkuk – the development and construction of giant ice ships. Operation Postmaster...
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carrier Lily and Clover Merchant aircraft carrier Mobile offshore base Project Habakkuk Seadrome Submarine aircraft carrier Unsinkable aircraft carrier List...
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subject of ice then led to him being recruited for Project Habakkuk in 1942. This was a secret project to build an ice platform in the mid-Atlantic, which...
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operations in Iraq. Modern United States Navy carrier air operations Project Habakkuk Seadrome Mobile offshore base (concept) Airborne aircraft carrier Floating...
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tougher than steel. Perutz's work, inspired by Geoffrey Pyke and part of Project Habakkuk, was meant to test the viability of pykrete as a material to construct...
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Channel Islands Husky (1943 — Allied invasion of Sicily. Project Habakkuk (1943) — project to construct an aircraft carrier from pykrete. Pointblank...
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Commons has media related to Lily floating airfield. Aircraft carrier Project Habakkuk "Lily and Clover - The Floating Airstrips". Aeromilitaria. Vol. 28...
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"Party Member 1 doesn't answer."). List of films made in Weimar Germany Project Habakkuk Pykrete "F.P. 1 antwortet nicht". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 4 July 2021...
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furnaces. 6 October 2010 (2010-10-06) 26 6 A (failed) recreation of Project Habakkuk, making a boat from 'Pykrete', fibre-reinforced ice. 13 October 2010 (2010-10-13)...
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Churchill managed to keep the Jupiter idea alive, even suggesting that Project Habakkuk, a plan for a giant aircraft carrier made from a mixture of ice and...
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digitized for the project and are accessible online: the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple...
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Huqoq (section Tomb of Habakkuk)
Christian, Druze and Muslim tradition located the tomb of the prophet Habakkuk in Huqoq and it has been a site of pilgrimage since the twelfth[dubious...
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Habakkuk Crabb (1750–1794) was a dissenting British minister. Crabb was born at Wattisfield, Suffolk, in 1750, being the second youngest of fifteen children...
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Hebrew Bible (category Pages using Sister project links with default search)
Jonah Mīḵā (מִיכָה) – Micah Naḥūm (נַחוּם) – Nahum Ḥăḇaqqūq (חֲבַקּוּק) – Habakkuk Ṣəfanyā (צְפַנְיָה) – Zephaniah Ḥaggay (חַגַּי) – Haggai Zəḵaryā (זְכַרְיָה)...
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is famous for “the British side of military projects”, which includes Nelson-class battleship, Habakkuk aircraft carrier, and the Archer self-propelled...
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Thomas Brezina (section Other projects)
as a puppeteer alongside Arminio Rothstein [de], better known as Clown Habakkuk in Austria, and played the magician Tintifax among others. Brezina wrote...
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military and religious practices in their interpretation of Habakkuk 2:2–2:4 (the Habakkuk Commentary) as "sacrificing to their standards and worshiping...
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Former Latter Minor Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi...
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