Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #15 was HMS Cossack.
HMS Cossack was a Tribal-class destroyer named after the Cossack people of the Eurasian steppe. She became famous for the boarding of the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian waters, and the associated rescue of sailors originally captured by the Admiral Graf Spee. She was torpedoed by the German submarine U-563 on 23 October 1941, and sank four days later.
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What the record says
Puzzle 15 ran on 24 Jul 2026 and the answer was HMS Cossack, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United Kingdom; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 114.9 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Tikkat3 's grandfather, photo of photo by Tikkat3, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
- destroyer
- Navy
- United Kingdom
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 114.9 m