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Puzzle #82 was RV Belgica.
Belgica was a barque-rigged steamship that was built in 1884 by Christian Brinch Jørgensen at Svelvik, Norway as the whaler Patria. In 1896, she was purchased by Adrien de Gerlache for conversion to a research ship, taking part in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1901, becoming the first ship to overwinter in the Antarctic. In 1902, she was sold to Philippe, Duke of Orléans and used on expeditions to the Arctic in 1905 and from 1907 to 1909.
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What the record says
Puzzle 82 ran on 29 Sep 2026 and the answer was RV Belgica, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - sail; Flag - Norway; Status - wreck. The numbers: Launched - 1880; Length - 35.97 m. 2 of the 7 columns are blank in the source (Tonnage and Builder), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/corp2838.htm . Originally from "Resultats du Voyage du S. Y. BELGICA en 1897-1898-1899 .... Rapports Scientifiques ... Travaux Hydrographiques et Instructions Nautiques" by G. Lecointe, 1903. P. 110. Plate XI., 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
- 1880
- Tonnage
- Not recorded
- Length
- 35.97 m
- Status
- wreck
- Builder
- Not recorded