Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #59 was HMS Gurkha.
HMS Gurkha was an L-class destroyer in Britain's Royal Navy during World War II. She was originally to be named Larne in line with her class letter. However, after the Tribal-class Gurkha was sunk in April 1940 the officers and men of the Gurkha regiments each subscribed one day's pay to replace her and Larne was renamed before launching.
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What the record says
Puzzle 59 ran on 6 Sep 2026 and the answer was HMS Gurkha, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United Kingdom; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940; Length - 110.5 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Agence Rol, 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 Kingdom
- Commissioned
- 1940
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 110.5 m