Shipdle
Puzzle #6 was Esperanza.
MV Esperanza was a ship operated by Greenpeace. Previous to being a Greenpeace ship it was a fire-fighting vessel owned by the Soviet Navy, built in 1984. It was recommissioned in 2000 and relaunched in 2002 after being named Esperanza by visitors to the Greenpeace website.
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What the record says
Puzzle 6 ran on 15 Jul 2026 and the answer was Esperanza, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - other; Flag - Netherlands; Tonnage - 1-10k; Builder - Gdańsk Shipyard. The numbers: Launched - 1980; Length - 72.29 m. 1 of the 7 columns is blank in the source (Status), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Glen from United Kingdom, licensed CC BY 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
- 1980
- Tonnage
- 1-10k
- Length
- 72.29 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Gdańsk Shipyard