Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #27 was HMS Coventry.
HMS Coventry was a Type 42-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Laid down by Cammell Laird, at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, she was launched on 21 June 1974 and accepted into service on 20 October 1978.
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What the record says
Puzzle 27 ran on 5 Aug 2026 and the answer was HMS Coventry, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United Kingdom; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1970; Length - 125 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Garvinhouse, U.S. Navy, 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
- 1970
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 125 m