Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #39 was Japanese destroyer Arashi.
Arashi (嵐; "Storm") was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
What the record says
Puzzle 39 ran on 17 Aug 2026 and the answer was Japanese destroyer Arashi, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Japan; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940. 2 of the 6 columns are blank in the source (Displacement and Length), 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
- sunk
- Length
- Not recorded