The US Navy banned alcohol consumption on naval vessels, bases and shipyards in 1914. As the US faced the impending threat of war, sailors needed an alternative morale boost: ice cream.

The US Navy banned alcohol consumption on naval vessels, bases and shipyards in 1914. As the US faced the impending threat of war, sailors needed an alternative morale boost: ice cream. The Navy ...

That fierce dedication to frosted sugar dairy led the Navy to spend $1 million on an ice cream barge. The branch, which borrowed the concrete barge from the Army, retrofitted it as an at-sea ice ...

Officially called a “BRL” (Barge, Refrigerated, Large, which sounds like a bureaucracy’s take on a Bond martini), the Navy’s beloved “ice cream ship” was basically a 265-foot-long ice ...

4 teaspoons (10 g) corn starch; 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon (115 g) sugar; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 3 tablespoons (15 g) powdered eggs* 3/4 cup (90 g) powdered whole milk* ...

It's May 8, 1942. The U.S. Navy is fighting a critical battle against a Japanese invasion fleet bound for Port Moresby, a steppingstone to the Australian mainland. The Battle of the Coral Sea ...

To understand why ice cream could become so important on one of the U.S. Navy’s newest class of nuclear-powered attack submarines, one must appreciate – as much as someone who is not a ...