Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #26 was Dmitri Donskoi.
Dmitry Donskoy is a retired submarine that was the lead ship of the Project 941 Akula class of the Russian Navy and formerly the Soviet Navy. The boat was laid down at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk on 30 June 1976, launched on 23 September 1980, and commissioned on 29 December 1981, with the designation TK-208. It spent its entire career with the Northern Fleet after entering service in February 1982, and received the name Dmitry Donskoy in July 2002.
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What the record says
Puzzle 26 ran on 4 Aug 2026 and the answer was Dmitri Donskoi, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - Russia. The numbers: Commissioned - 1980; Length - 172 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 Sergey Fedyunin, licensed CC BY 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
- submarine
- Navy
- Russia
- Commissioned
- 1980
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 172 m