- To protect the Allied ships being sunk by German U-boats during WWII the British approved building aircraft carriers out of ice.
- With Canada on board an experimental project was conducted at a lake in Alberta as the test site.
- In spite of the challenges faced, early 1943 saw a 60-foot long ice prototype disguised as a boathouse with a roof.
- However, the viable ice ship project sank by mid-1943 with only parts of it remaining today.
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