Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #9 was HMCS Haida.
HMCS Haida is a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1943 to 1963, participating in World War II and the Korean War. She was named after the Haida people.
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What the record says
Puzzle 9 ran on 18 Jul 2026 and the answer was HMCS Haida, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Canada; Fate - museum. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940; Length - 114.9 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D., 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
- Canada
- Commissioned
- 1940
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- museum
- Length
- 114.9 m