Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #97 was Japanese destroyer Umikaze.
Umikaze was the seventh of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers, and the first to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle Two Program. A U.S. Navy submarine torpedoed and sunk her on 1 February 1944, off Truk Atoll.
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What the record says
Puzzle 97 ran on 14 Oct 2026 and the answer was Japanese destroyer Umikaze, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Japan; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 103.5 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Unknown, 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
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 103.5 m