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Puzzle #95 was USS George H.W. Bush.

USS George H.W. Bush photo
Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall (Public domain)

USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) is the tenth and final Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy. She is named for the 41st president of the United States and 11th director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush, who was a naval aviator during World War II. The vessel's callsign is Avenger, named after the TBF Avenger aircraft flown by then-Lieutenant Bush in World War II.

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What the record says

Puzzle 95 ran on 12 Oct 2026 and the answer was USS George H.W. Bush, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - carrier; Navy - United States. The numbers: Commissioned - 2000; Length - 332.8 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 by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall, 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
2000
Displacement
Not recorded
Fate
Not recorded
Length
332.8 m

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