Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #3 was Japanese destroyer Isokaze.
Isokaze (磯風; "Wind on the Beach") was one of 19 Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s. Isokaze escorted the aircraft carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, before remaining with the Kido Butai for the first months of the war; helping to sink the 8,806 ton Dutch freighter Modjokerto. From 4-6 June, Isokaze escorted aircraft carriers during the battle of Midway where she evacuated the sinking aircraft carrier Sōryū before scuttling her with torpedoes.
What the record says
Puzzle 3 ran on 12 Jul 2026 and the answer was Japanese destroyer Isokaze, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Japan. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940; Length - 118.4 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 Shizuo Fukui, 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
- Japan
- Commissioned
- 1940
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 118.4 m