Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #7 was ORP Błyskawica.
ORP Błyskawica is a Grom-class destroyer which served in the Polish Navy during World War II. She is the only Polish Navy ship to have been decorated with the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military order for gallantry, and in 2012 was given the Pro Memoria Medal. Błyskawica is preserved as a museum ship in Gdynia and is the oldest preserved destroyer in the world.
What the record says
Puzzle 7 ran on 16 Jul 2026 and the answer was ORP Błyskawica, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Poland; Fate - museum. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 114 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Witold Pikiel (1889-1943), 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
- Poland
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- museum
- Length
- 114 m