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Puzzle #115 was MV Doulos Phos.
MV Doulos Phos is a retired ocean liner, and former cruise ship, that held the record of being the world's oldest active ocean-going passenger ship, serving from 1914 until December 2009. She is now owned by Eric Saw, director and chief executive of BizNaz Resources International Pte Ltd in Singapore. She was previously operated by the German charity Gute Bücher für Alle, and was used as a floating bookshop and missionary ship.
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What the record says
Puzzle 115 ran on 1 Nov 2026 and the answer was MV Doulos Phos, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - cruise; Flag - Malta; Tonnage - 1-10k; Builder - Newport News Shipbuilding. The numbers: Launched - 1910; Length - 130.35 m. 1 of the 7 columns is blank in the source (Status), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Jpatokal, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
- cruise
- Flag
- Malta
- Launched
- 1910
- Tonnage
- 1-10k
- Length
- 130.35 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Newport News Shipbuilding