Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #43 was USS Donald Cook.
USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy named for Medal of Honor recipient Donald Cook, a colonel in the United States Marine Corps. She is the 14th of the class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Construction began on 9 July 1996, she was launched and christened on 3 May 1997, and on 4 December 1998, she was commissioned at Penn's Landing Pier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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What the record says
Puzzle 43 ran on 21 Aug 2026 and the answer was USS Donald Cook, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United States. The numbers: Commissioned - 1990; Length - 154 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. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Mate Alan J. Baribeau, 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
- 154 m