Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #92 was HMS Exeter.
HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s, and the last heavy cruiser the Royal Navy would ever build. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–1936, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Station.
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What the record says
Puzzle 92 ran on 9 Oct 2026 and the answer was HMS Exeter, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - cruiser; Navy - United Kingdom; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 175.3 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by U.S. Navy, 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
- cruiser
- Navy
- United Kingdom
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 175.3 m