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Puzzle #62 was DCV Balder.
DCV Balder is a deepwater construction vessel (DCV) operated by Heerema Marine Contractors.
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What the record says
Puzzle 62 ran on 9 Sep 2026 and the answer was DCV Balder, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - other; Flag - Panama; Tonnage - 50-100k; Builder - Mitsui Tamano Shipyard. The numbers: Launched - 1970; Length - 154 m. 1 of the 7 columns is blank in the source (Status), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Alf van Beem, 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
- other
- Flag
- Panama
- Launched
- 1970
- Tonnage
- 50-100k
- Length
- 154 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Mitsui Tamano Shipyard