Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #74 was German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass.
The German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass was the lead ship of her class of four destroyers built for the German Navy during the mid-1930s. Completed in 1937, two years before the start of World War II, the ship served as a flagship and spent most of her time training, although she did participate in the occupation of Memel in early 1939.
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What the record says
Puzzle 74 ran on 21 Sep 2026 and the answer was German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Germany. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 119.3 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 Renz, Karl (1900-1959), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
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
- Germany
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 119.3 m