Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #87 was USS Hornet.
USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
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What the record says
Puzzle 87 ran on 4 Oct 2026 and the answer was USS Hornet, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - carrier; Navy - United States; Displacement - 15-40k. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940; Length - 251.4 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Fate), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by U.S. Navy photo 80-G-463613, 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
- carrier
- Navy
- United States
- Commissioned
- 1940
- Displacement
- 15-40k
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 251.4 m