Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #24 was SM U-1.
SM U-1 was the first U-boat produced for the Imperial German Navy. The boat was constructed by Germaniawerft in Kiel and was commissioned on 14 December 1906. The main purpose of U-1 was to develop operational experience with submarines and to test new equipment.
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What the record says
Puzzle 24 ran on 2 Aug 2026 and the answer was SM U-1, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - Germany. The numbers: Commissioned - 1900; Length - 42.39 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 The West Virginian, 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
- 1900
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 42.39 m