Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #5 was HMS Sheffield.
HMS Sheffield was a Type 42-class guided missile destroyer and the second Royal Navy ship to be named after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. Commissioned on 16 February 1975 the Sheffield was part of the Task Force 317 sent to the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War. She was struck and heavily damaged by an Exocet air-launched anti-ship missile from an Argentine Super Étendard aircraft on 4 May 1982 and foundered while under tow on 10 May 1982.
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What the record says
Puzzle 5 ran on 14 Jul 2026 and the answer was HMS Sheffield, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United Kingdom; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1970; Length - 125 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Nathalmad, licensed CC BY 3.0.
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 Kingdom
- Commissioned
- 1970
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 125 m