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Puzzle #118 was SMS Bayern.
SMS Bayern was the lead ship of the Bayern class of dreadnought battleships in the German Kaiserliche Marine. The vessel was launched in February 1915 and entered service in July 1916, too late to take part in the Battle of Jutland. Her main armament consisted of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns in four turrets, which was a significant improvement over the preceding König's ten 30.5 cm (12 inch) guns.
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What the record says
Puzzle 118 ran on 4 Nov 2026 and the answer was SMS Bayern, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - battleship; Navy - Germany; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1910; Length - 180 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Royal Navy official photographer (C. W. Burrows), 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
- battleship
- Navy
- Germany
- Commissioned
- 1910
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 180 m