History

• 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.

Here is an interesting story about extreme steps taken during...

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The Maritime Radio Club ‘Marine Funker Club Austria (MFCA)’ commemorates the first ship-to-ship radio contact made between two ships.

On 21 December 1898, the maiden ship-to-ship radio contact was established between SMS Budapest and SMS Lussin with the callsign OE120MF between the 21^st and 23^rd December.

The Monarch class coastal defense ship ‘SMS Budapest’ was built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. The defense ship conducted the first wireless...

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David Barnicoat has written about the historic German U-boat which sank 98 ships in World War 1 in his latest article published in Falmouth Packet. Today we will be discussing that incident.

German WW1 U-boat ace Kapitanleutnant Ralph Wenninger wreaked havoc off the coast of Cornwall and in the Western Approaches during his various patrols in 1916 and 1917.

He was responsible for sinking 98 ships with a total of 102,638 GRT during his war career.

The WW1 shipwreck of...

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