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Puzzle #40 was MV Sewol.
MV Sewol was a South Korean vehicle-passenger ferry, built and previously operated in Japan. She operated between Incheon and Jeju. On 16 April 2014, the ferry capsized and sank with the loss of 304 passengers and crew.
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What the record says
Puzzle 40 ran on 18 Aug 2026 and the answer was MV Sewol, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - ferry; Tonnage - 1-10k; Status - wreck. The numbers: Launched - 1990; Length - 145.61 m. 2 of the 7 columns are blank in the source (Flag and Builder), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by tsuda from Tsushima, Aichi, Japan, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
- ferry
- Flag
- Not recorded
- Launched
- 1990
- Tonnage
- 1-10k
- Length
- 145.61 m
- Status
- wreck
- Builder
- Not recorded