Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #51 was USS Ross.
USS Ross (DDG-71) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy and is the last of the Flight I variant. She is the second Navy ship to be named Ross, the first Navy ship named for Medal of Honor recipient Donald K. Ross. The first Ross, DD-563, was named for David Ross, a captain in the Continental Navy.
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What the record says
Puzzle 51 ran on 29 Aug 2026 and the answer was USS Ross, 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 Official U.S. Navy Page from United States of America MC1 Theron J. Godbold/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
- 154 m