Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #86 was HMS Vanguard.
HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy's battleships, and the only ship of her class. Vanguard was the last battleship in history to be built.
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What the record says
Puzzle 86 ran on 3 Oct 2026 and the answer was HMS Vanguard, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - battleship; Navy - United Kingdom. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940; Length - 248.3 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 U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-12832, 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
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 248.3 m