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).
Kind of an aside, but I had no idea that concrete ships were a thing. Not ships carrying concrete, but ships made of actual reinforced concrete, like a building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYLBPg56TA
Britain tried ships made of ice and sawdust!
pykrete is amazing, did they actually build any ships though?
From what I remember they built a boathouse out of it in Canada and it stayed afloat for a good while.
that’s very neat!