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Puzzle #68 was MV Rabaul Queen.
MV Rabaul Queen was a passenger ferry owned by the Papua New Guinea company Rabaul Shipping. The ship, built in Japan in 1983, operated on short runs in that country, before being brought to Papua New Guinea in 1998 and plying a regular weekly route between Kimbe, the capital of West New Britain, and Lae, the capital of the mainland province of Morobe.
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What the record says
Puzzle 68 ran on 15 Sep 2026 and the answer was MV Rabaul Queen, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - other; Flag - Papua New Guinea; Tonnage - <1k; Status - wreck. The numbers: Launched - 1980; Length - 47 m. 1 of the 7 columns is blank in the source (Builder), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Rabaul_Queen.JPG : Michael Pennay derivative work: An-d ( talk ), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
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How it scored
- Type
- other
- Flag
- Papua New Guinea
- Launched
- 1980
- Tonnage
- <1k
- Length
- 47 m
- Status
- wreck
- Builder
- Not recorded