Subscribe to Dark Docs: In 1942, German U-boats were decimating British shipping in the North Atlantic. Between January and February of 1942 Germans had sunk over 150,000 tonnes of Allied ship weight without losing a single U-Boat by using the wolfpack strategy. In October alone, an additional 56 allied ships were sunk. The allied forces were desperate to fight back, but had no way to take their anti-submarine aircraft to the region, being too far from land and with icy conditions making it inaccessible for aircraft carriers. To make matters worse, Britain was struggling to access the necessary raw materials, particularly steel, for continued development of new ships and aircraft.
Desperate for ideas, Lord Mountbatten and Winston Churchill were approached by Geoffrey Pyke, who intended to fashion a solution out of the problem, daring to imagine a fleet of mobile and unsinkable carriers made of ice. And a series of promising tests would ultimately lead to the creation of a top-secret 1,000-ton prototype in the middle of a lake...
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