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Puzzle #13 was Independence of the Seas.
Independence of the Seas is a Freedom-class cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International. The 15-deck ship was built in the Aker Finnyards Turku Shipyard, Finland. Originally built to be 154,407 GT, she joined Freedom of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas as the largest cruise ships and passenger vessels when she debuted.
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What the record says
Puzzle 13 ran on 22 Jul 2026 and the answer was Independence of the Seas, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - cruise; Flag - The Bahamas; Tonnage - >100k; Builder - Aker Finnyards. The numbers: Launched - 2000; Length - 338.72 m. 1 of the 7 columns is blank in the source (Status), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Wolfgang Fricke, licensed CC BY 3.0.
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
- The Bahamas
- Launched
- 2000
- Tonnage
- >100k
- Length
- 338.72 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Aker Finnyards