Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #45 was USS Laboon.
USS Laboon (DDG-58) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Father John Francis Laboon (1921–1988), a captain in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy, who was awarded the Silver Star during World War II while serving on the submarine USS Peto.
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What the record says
Puzzle 45 ran on 23 Aug 2026 and the answer was USS Laboon, 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 Dave Fitz., 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