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Liberty Class

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About Liberty Class

Blue Water Autonomy’s Liberty Class is a proposed 67.7-metre medium unmanned surface vessel for independent ocean crossings and missions lasting two to three months. The ABS AH36 steel design displaces 810 tonnes, has a stated range of 10,700 nautical miles and reaches 25 knots. Its working deck can carry six forty-foot-equivalent containers for cargo or mission equipment.

Containerised engine-room modules are intended to support distributed construction, maintenance and replacement, while the open deck allows payload hardware and software to change between missions. Blue Water Autonomy describes Level 4 autonomy spanning navigation and machinery operation. Liberty Class remains a development programme, so its dimensions, endurance and payload describe the announced design envelope and are not presented as measured service performance from an operating fleet.

11 FEB 2026

Blue Water Autonomy unveils 190-foot Liberty Class autonomous ship

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  • Blue Water Autonomy adds manufacturing partners for Liberty Class production

    2026-05-07 - Partnership - Tulip supplies the manufacturing-execution software used to coordinate production-floor workflows. Caterpillar Defense and Precise Power Systems support marine propulsion and containerized autonomous engine modules. Valstad supplies modular structural-panel kits and robotic fabrication cells for distributed ship production.

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  • Blue Water Autonomy introduces 190-foot Liberty Class autonomous ship

    2026-02-11 - Product Launch - The published design pairs a Damen Stan Patrol 6009 hull with more than 10,000 nautical miles of range and over 150 metric tons of payload capacity. Construction was scheduled to begin at Conrad Shipyard in March 2026, with the first vessel targeted for completion later that year. Blue Water described missile, sensor and logistics payloads as planned mission configurations.

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