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Puzzle #16 was HMNZS Canterbury.
HMNZS Canterbury is a multi-role vessel (MRV) of the Royal New Zealand Navy. She was commissioned in June 2007, and is the second ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy to carry the name. She is also New Zealand's first purpose-built strategic sealift ship.
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What the record says
Puzzle 16 ran on 25 Jul 2026 and the answer was HMNZS Canterbury, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - other; Flag - New Zealand; Tonnage - 10-50k; Builder - Tenix. The numbers: Launched - 2000; Length - 131.22 m. 1 of the 7 columns is blank in the source (Status), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Samantha J. Webb, 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
- other
- Flag
- New Zealand
- Launched
- 2000
- Tonnage
- 10-50k
- Length
- 131.22 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Tenix