Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #32 was DSV Alvin.
Alvin (DSV-2) is a crewed deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The original vehicle was built by General Mills' Electronics Group in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Named to honor the prime mover and creative inspiration for the vehicle, Allyn Vine, Alvin was commissioned on June 5, 1964.
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What the record says
Puzzle 32 ran on 10 Aug 2026 and the answer was DSV Alvin, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - United States. The numbers: Commissioned - 1960; Length - 7 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 NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, 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
- Not recorded
- Length
- 7 m