Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #38 was SM U-9.
SM U-9 was a German Type U 9 U-boat. She was one of 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy and engaged in commerce raiding during the First World War.
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What the record says
Puzzle 38 ran on 16 Aug 2026 and the answer was SM U-9, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - Germany. The numbers: Commissioned - 1910; Length - 57.38 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 National Museum of the 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
- submarine
- Navy
- Germany
- Commissioned
- 1910
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 57.38 m