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Ice cream barge - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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To raise the morale of overseas troops, an ice cream freezer facility was included, able to create 10 US gallons (38 L) of ice cream every seven minutes, or approximately 500 US gal (1,900 L) per shift (equivalent to five tons per day), and could store 2,000 US gal (7,600 L).

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[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Britain tried ships made of ice and sawdust!

[–] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

pykrete is amazing, did they actually build any ships though?

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

From what I remember they built a boathouse out of it in Canada and it stayed afloat for a good while.

[–] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

that's very neat!