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Puzzle #34 was U-1.

U-1 photo
Photo: Unknown author (Public domain)

German submarine U-1 was the first U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine following Adolf Hitler's abrogation of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1935, which banned Germany possessing a submarine force.

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What the record says

Puzzle 34 ran on 12 Aug 2026 and the answer was U-1, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - Germany; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930. 2 of the 6 columns are blank in the source (Displacement and Length), so nobody could score them either way.

The photograph is by Unknown author, 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
Germany
Commissioned
1930
Displacement
Not recorded
Fate
sunk
Length
Not recorded

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