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Puzzle #28 was MS Norman Atlantic.
MS Norman Atlantic was a roll-on/roll-off passenger (ROPAX) ferry owned by the Italian ferry company Visemar di Navigazione. The ferry was chartered by ANEK Lines from December 2014. On 28 December 2014, she caught fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea.
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What the record says
Puzzle 28 ran on 6 Aug 2026 and the answer was MS Norman Atlantic, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - ferry; Flag - Italy; Tonnage - 10-50k. The numbers: Launched - 2000; Length - 186.5 m. 2 of the 7 columns are blank in the source (Status and Builder), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by Albinfo, licensed CC0.
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How it scored
- Type
- ferry
- Flag
- Italy
- Launched
- 2000
- Tonnage
- 10-50k
- Length
- 186.5 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Not recorded