Editing Project Habakkuk (section)

{{Short description|British planned aircraft carrier made of pykrete}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}
[[File:Habakukk aircraft 01 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Conceptual design of Project Habakkuk aircraft carrier with  {{convert|600|m|ft|0|adj=on}} runway]]
 
'''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 mixture of [[wood pulp]] and [[ice]], for use against [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[U-boat]]s in the mid-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time. The plan was to create what would have been the largest ship ever at {{convert|600|m|0}} long, which would have been much bigger than even the [[USS Enterprise (CVN-65)|USS ''Enterprise'']] and the [[USS Gerald R. Ford|USS ''Gerald R. Ford'']], the largest naval vessel ever, at {{convert|342|m}} long. The idea came from [[Geoffrey Pyke]], who worked for [[Combined Operations Headquarters]].  After promising scale tests and the creation of a prototype on [[Patricia Lake (Alberta)|Patricia Lake]], [[Jasper National Park]], in [[Alberta]], Canada, the project was shelved due to rising costs, added requirements, and the availability of longer-range aircraft and escort carriers which closed the [[Mid-Atlantic gap]] that the project was intended to address.