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Puzzle #54 was Fram.
Fram ('Forward') is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. It was designed and built by the Scottish-Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition in which the plan was to freeze Fram into the Arctic ice sheet and float with it over the North Pole.
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What the record says
Puzzle 54 ran on 1 Sep 2026 and the answer was Fram, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - sail; Flag - Norway; Builder - Colin Archer. The numbers: Launched - 1890; Length - 39 m. 2 of the 7 columns are blank in the source (Tonnage and Status), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by Unknown , Archival Photograph by Mr. Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS, 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
- sail
- Flag
- Norway
- Launched
- 1890
- Tonnage
- Not recorded
- Length
- 39 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Colin Archer