Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #56 was USS Indianapolis.
USS Indianapolis (CL/CA-35) was a Portland-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. Launched in 1931, she was the flagship of the commander of Scouting Force 1 for eight years, then flagship for Admiral Raymond Spruance from 1943 to 1945 while he commanded the Fifth Fleet in battles across the Central Pacific during World War II.
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What the record says
Puzzle 56 ran on 3 Sep 2026 and the answer was USS Indianapolis, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - cruiser; Navy - United States; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 186 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Unknown author, 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
- cruiser
- Navy
- United States
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 186 m