Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #28 was USS Thresher.
USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark.
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What the record says
Puzzle 28 ran on 6 Aug 2026 and the answer was USS Thresher, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - United States; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1960; Length - 85 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Anonymous, 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
- United States
- Commissioned
- 1960
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 85 m