Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #89 was Japanese destroyer Mikazuki.
The Japanese destroyer Mikazuki was one of twelve Mutsuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. At the beginning of the Pacific War, she served in home waters as the plane guard for those aircraft carriers that were training or working up. In mid-1942, the ship played a minor role in the Battle of Midway and was then assigned to convoy escort duties between Formosa and Japan for the next year.
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What the record says
Puzzle 89 ran on 6 Oct 2026 and the answer was Japanese destroyer Mikazuki, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Japan. The numbers: Commissioned - 1920; Length - 102.72 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 Shizuo Fukui, 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
- Japan
- Commissioned
- 1920
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 102.72 m