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Puzzle #52 was Boka Vanguard.
BOKA Vanguard is a semisubmersible heavy-lift ship owned and operated by Dockwise B.V. Dockwise Vanguard is the largest vessel of her type ever built, and is able to carry cargoes up to 110,000 tonnes. Dockwise Vanguard was designed to move offshore oil and gas facilities, but can also carry other ships and act as an offshore dry-dock facility.
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What the record says
Puzzle 52 ran on 30 Aug 2026 and the answer was Boka Vanguard, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - other; Flag - Netherlands; Tonnage - 50-100k; Builder - Hyundai Heavy Industries. The numbers: Launched - 2010; Length - 275 m. 1 of the 7 columns is blank in the source (Status), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by kees torn, 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
- other
- Flag
- Netherlands
- Launched
- 2010
- Tonnage
- 50-100k
- Length
- 275 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Hyundai Heavy Industries