Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #12 was U-39.
German submarine U-39 was a Type IXA U-boat of the Kriegsmarine that operated from 1938 to the first few days of World War II.
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What the record says
Puzzle 12 ran on 21 Jul 2026 and the answer was U-39, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - Germany; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930. 2 of the 6 columns are blank in the source (Displacement and Length), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by Unknown, 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
- Germany
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- Not recorded