Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #81 was HMS Duke of York.
HMS Duke of York was one of five King George V-class battleships built for the Royal Navy (RN) shortly before the Second World War. Completed in November 1941, the ship transported Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the United States to meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt the following month.
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What the record says
Puzzle 81 ran on 28 Sep 2026 and the answer was HMS Duke of York, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - battleship; Navy - United Kingdom; Displacement - 15-40k. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940; Length - 227.09 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Fate), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by RN official photographer, Parnall C H (Lt), 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
- battleship
- Navy
- United Kingdom
- Commissioned
- 1940
- Displacement
- 15-40k
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 227.09 m