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Puzzle #96 was German cruiser Leipzig.
Leipzig was the lead ship of her class of light cruisers built by the German navy. She had one sister ship, Nürnberg. Leipzig was laid down in April 1928, was launched in October 1929, and was commissioned into the Reichsmarine in October 1931.
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What the record says
Puzzle 96 ran on 13 Oct 2026 and the answer was German cruiser Leipzig, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - cruiser; Navy - Germany. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 177 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 Heinrich Hoffman Collection, U.S. National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675-1958., 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
- Germany
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 177 m