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Puzzle #4 was Alcyone.
Alcyone is a ship launched at La Rochelle in 1985 for the Cousteau Society. Alcyone was created as an expedition ship and to test the operation of a new kind of marine propulsion system, the turbosail. Alcyone's two turbosails augment its diesel engines.
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What the record says
Puzzle 4 ran on 13 Jul 2026 and the answer was Alcyone, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - other; Flag - France; Tonnage - <1k. The numbers: Launched - 1980; Length - 31 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 Anthony Levrot, 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
- other
- Flag
- France
- Launched
- 1980
- Tonnage
- <1k
- Length
- 31 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Not recorded