Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #41 was USS John S. McCain.
USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer currently in the service of the United States Navy. She is part of the Destroyer Squadron 23 within the Third Fleet, and has her homeport at Naval Station Everett in Everett, Washington.
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What the record says
Puzzle 41 ran on 19 Aug 2026 and the answer was USS John S. McCain, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United States. The numbers: Commissioned - 1990; Length - 153.92 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
- destroyer
- Navy
- United States
- Commissioned
- 1990
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 153.92 m