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Puzzle #102 was SS Vega.
SS Vega was a Swedish barque, built in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1872. The Vega was the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northeast Passage, and the first vessel to circumnavigate the Eurasian continent, during the Vega expedition. Initially a troubled enterprise, the successful expedition is considered to be among the highest achievements in the history of Swedish science.
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What the record says
Puzzle 102 ran on 19 Oct 2026 and the answer was SS Vega, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - sail; Flag - Sweden; Status - wreck. The numbers: Launched - 1870; Length - 45 m. 2 of the 7 columns are blank in the source (Tonnage and Builder), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by Louis Palander, licensed Public domain.
Shipdle builds its record from Wikidata - CC0 1.0 and Wikimedia Commons photographs - licence verified per photo (US government public domain, PD-old, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA; never NC or ND). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia summary excerpt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Type
- sail
- Flag
- Sweden
- Launched
- 1870
- Tonnage
- Not recorded
- Length
- 45 m
- Status
- wreck
- Builder
- Not recorded