Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #110 was HMS Iron Duke.
HMS Iron Duke was a dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class, named in honour of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard, and her keel laid in January 1912. Launched ten months later, she was commissioned into the Home Fleet in March 1914 as the fleet flagship.
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What the record says
Puzzle 110 ran on 27 Oct 2026 and the answer was HMS Iron Duke, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - battleship; Navy - United Kingdom. The numbers: Commissioned - 1910; Length - 189.81 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 User Morven on en.wikipedia, licensed Public domain.
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How it scored
- Class
- battleship
- Navy
- United Kingdom
- Commissioned
- 1910
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 189.81 m