Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #33 was HMS Defender.
HMS Defender is the fifth of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She is the eighth ship to bear the name. Construction of Defender began in 2006, and she was launched in 2009.
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What the record says
Puzzle 33 ran on 11 Aug 2026 and the answer was HMS Defender, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United Kingdom. The numbers: Commissioned - 2010; Length - 152.4 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 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
- 2010
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 152.4 m