Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #4 was U-47.
German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 25 February 1937 at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 582 and went into service on 17 December 1938 under the command of Günther Prien.
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What the record says
Puzzle 4 ran on 13 Jul 2026 and the answer was U-47, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - submarine; Navy - Germany. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 66.5 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. Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 102539, 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
- Not recorded
- Length
- 66.5 m