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Puzzle #21 was HMS Dragon.
HMS Dragon is the fourth ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in November 2008 and commissioned on 20 April 2012.
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What the record says
Puzzle 21 ran on 30 Jul 2026 and the answer was HMS Dragon, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United Kingdom. The numbers: Commissioned - 2010; Length - 152.4 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 U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jacob D. Moore, 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
- destroyer
- Navy
- United Kingdom
- Commissioned
- 2010
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 152.4 m