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Puzzle #116 was Japanese cruiser Kinugasa.
Kinugasa was the second vessel in the two-vessel Aoba class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Following the Japanese ship-naming conventions, the ship was named after Mount Kinugasa, located in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
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What the record says
Puzzle 116 ran on 2 Nov 2026 and the answer was Japanese cruiser Kinugasa, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - cruiser; Navy - Japan; Displacement - 5-15k. The numbers: Commissioned - 1920; Length - 185.17 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Fate), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Imperial Japanese Navy official photograph per naval achives kept at museum, 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
- cruiser
- Navy
- Japan
- Commissioned
- 1920
- Displacement
- 5-15k
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 185.17 m