Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #10 was USS Nautilus.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first nuclear-powered boat, nuclear-powered submarine, and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Her initial commanding officer was Eugene "Dennis" Wilkinson, a widely respected naval officer who set the stage for many of the protocols of today's Nuclear Navy in the US, and who had a storied career during military service and afterwards.
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What the record says
Puzzle 10 ran on 19 Jul 2026 and the answer was USS Nautilus, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - United States. The numbers: Commissioned - 1950; Length - 97.5 m. 2 of the 6 columns are blank in the source (Displacement and Fate), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by U.S. Navy, 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
- Class
- submarine
- Navy
- United States
- Commissioned
- 1950
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 97.5 m