Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #107 was USS Yorktown.
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, she was commissioned in 1937. Yorktown was the lead ship of the Yorktown class, which was designed on the basis of lessons learned from operations with the converted battlecruisers of the Lexington class and the smaller purpose-built USSÂ Ranger.
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What the record says
Puzzle 107 ran on 24 Oct 2026 and the answer was USS Yorktown, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - carrier; Navy - United States; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 251 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by U.S. Navy photo 19-N-17424, 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
- carrier
- Navy
- United States
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 251 m