Product profile
Liberty Class
Liberty Class is Blue Water Autonomy’s medium unmanned surface vessel for long-duration autonomous maritime missions. The company describes Level 4 autonom...
Facts
- Company
- Blue Water Autonomy
- Product type
- usv
- Status
- development
- Primary capability
- long-duration autonomous maritime operations
- Website
- https://www.blw.ai/libertyclass
About Liberty Class
Liberty Class is Blue Water Autonomy’s medium unmanned surface vessel for long-duration autonomous maritime missions. The company describes Level 4 autonomy, two-to-three-month missions, 810 MT displacement and capacity for six FEU containers.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Unmanned vessel
Core: Liberty Class
Function: Extended missions
Audience: Naval operators
Specifications
- autonomy_level
- Level 4
- beam_m
- 9.00 m m
- displacement_mt
- 810 MT MT
- hull_material
- ABS AH36 steel
- length_m
- 67.70 m m
- max_speed_knots
- 25 knots knots
- mission_duration
- 2–3 months
- payload_capacity_feu
- 6 FEU containers FEU
- range_nm
- 10,700 nautical miles nmi
Operations
- Environment
- marine_surface, blue_water, open_ocean
- Primary user
- naval and maritime operators
- Role
- long_endurance_autonomous_surface_operations, modular_payload_transport
- Interaction model
- supervised autonomy
- Mobility class
- surface vessel
- Product detail
- autonomous_surface_vessel, robot, 1600, medium_unmanned_surface_vessel, 900, 2db4800a083de22b622acb52e2bcf7555cf132acdbeb5062021c93a5a27bfa4a, reviewed_16x9_source_media, Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel, https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/1fc4dd5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1200x627%2B0%2B0/resize/1200x627%21/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewatlas-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe8%2Fb7%2F19ce46a24a1ca4a9e8023129c84c%2Fliberty-class-hero-image.jpg, clean_photo_or_studio_fallbac...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Blue Water Autonomy joins $40m NAVOCEANO ocean-survey IDIQ — 2026-07-30
- Blue Water Autonomy adds manufacturing partners for Liberty Class production — 2026-05-07
- Blue Water Autonomy introduces Liberty Class autonomous ship — 2026-02-11
- Blue Water Autonomy raises $50m Series A led by GV — 2025-08-26
- Blue Water Autonomy emerges from stealth with $14m seed round — 2025-04-11