Clippership

Supports: Profile · primary location.longitude

An approximate city centroid is used for the source-stated South San Francisco location; this is geographic interpretation, not a surveyed company-site coordinate.

Supports: Profile · dual use posture

The company positions its early sense-and-compute vessels for maritime and government tasks including processing sensor, radar, video and bathymetric data. Those are proposed applications rather than verified government customers.

Supports: Profile · reviewed questions.prototype-proof.context

The September white paper schedules the initial nodes for October, while the larger energy-yield case is simulated. The reviewed sources do not establish completed launch or acceptance results.

Supports: Profile · primary location.countrycode

South San Francisco, California is the documented United States operating location.

Supports: Profile · commercial status

The company white paper presents staged compute prototypes and production targets, not accepted commercial service.

Supports: Profile · reviewed questions.sensor-compute-interface.question

The company proposes sensor and daughter-vehicle processing on small maritime compute nodes; usable integration interfaces and measured results need verification.

Supports: Profile · description

The white paper separates early sense-and-compute nodes from a later 70m, 3MWe vessel concept.

Supports: Profile · primary location.provinceterritory

The white paper masthead identifies South San Francisco, CA.

Supports: Profile · primary location.city

The white paper masthead identifies South San Francisco, CA as the authors’ location.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · technicaldomainslugs

The white paper couples wing propulsion, underwater hydrokinetic turbines, seawater heat exchange and onboard computing in a conceptual vessel.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · summary

A proposed larger vessel architecture uses wing propulsion and underwater turbines to power onboard computing. The white paper models a 70m, 3MWe-class catamaran and separates the conceptual scale-up from the smaller initial nodes.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · core features

Roadmap targets 0.25MWe in Q2 2027, a 3MWe prototype in Q2 2028 and production after validation from Q4 2029.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · defence applications

Potential latency-tolerant offshore AI workloads.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · maturity

Concept and simulated economics with a staged prototype roadmap; no full-scale generated-power, uptime or commercial economics result was established.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · technical tags

The white paper couples wing propulsion, underwater hydrokinetic turbines, seawater heat exchange and onboard computing in a conceptual vessel.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · technical tags

The white paper couples wing propulsion, underwater hydrokinetic turbines, seawater heat exchange and onboard computing in a conceptual vessel.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · technicaldomainslugs

The white paper couples wing propulsion, underwater hydrokinetic turbines, seawater heat exchange and onboard computing in a conceptual vessel.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · technical tags

The white paper couples wing propulsion, underwater hydrokinetic turbines, seawater heat exchange and onboard computing in a conceptual vessel.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · name

Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · commercial availability

Future development roadmap, not a delivered 3MWe product.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · core features

White paper reports approximately 88–89% capacity factors in 2022–2025 Pacific weather-routing simulations.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · core features

The white paper’s model assumes active-suction wing lift coefficient about 7, while the stated current passive wing is 2.6.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · capability type

The white paper proposes wind propulsion driving hydrokinetic turbines to supply onboard AI compute.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · summary

Clippership proposes small autonomous vessel nodes for processing maritime sensor and daughter-vehicle data locally. The September 2026 roadmap schedules two initial nodes for October; completed launch and workload results were not established.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · core features

Proposed workloads include bathymetry, video and radar processing and weather prediction.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · technical tags

The white paper proposes autonomous maritime nodes with eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs per node, processing sensor and daughter-vehicle data locally.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · technical tags

The white paper proposes autonomous maritime nodes with eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs per node, processing sensor and daughter-vehicle data locally.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · defence applications

Potential maritime sensor and uncrewed-vehicle data processing.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · core features

Company roadmap specifies two 10kWe nodes, each powering eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs with seawater heat exchange.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · commercial availability

Proposed early customer and validation platform; operational availability requires confirmation.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · name

Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · technicaldomainslugs

The white paper proposes autonomous maritime nodes with eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs per node, processing sensor and daughter-vehicle data locally.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · maturity

Company-planned October 2026 deployment; the roadmap is not a launch or customer-acceptance record.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · defence applications

Testing useful AI workloads alongside onboard power and communications.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · capability type

The company proposes sense-and-compute vessels processing local bathymetry, video, radar and daughter-vehicle data.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · technical tags

The white paper proposes autonomous maritime nodes with eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs per node, processing sensor and daughter-vehicle data locally.

Supports: Maritime sense-and-compute vessel nodes · technicaldomainslugs

The white paper proposes autonomous maritime nodes with eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs per node, processing sensor and daughter-vehicle data locally.

Supports: Profile · primary location.locationrole

Clippership states that it is proud to build in South San Francisco; this supports a build facility without asserting legal headquarters.

Supports: Profile · canadian footprint

Historical team biography and a foreign build address do not establish Canadian premises or an announced entry plan.

Supports: Profile · entity kind

Clippership says it develops autonomous wind-powered vessels and onboard compute systems.

Supports: Profile · website url

The company presents its official product, team and organizational contact at https://clippership.co/.

Supports: Profile · description

The current Clippership site presents autonomous vessels carrying AI compute and states that the company builds in South San Francisco.

Supports: Profile · founded year

Clippership states that the company was founded in 2024.

Supports: Profile · aliases

The official site footer uses the corporate styling Clippership inc.

Supports: Profile · profileData.publicContact.publicEmail

Clippership publishes hello@clippership.co as its organizational email contact.

Supports: Profile · canadian footprint

Clippership states that it builds in South San Francisco; this is a foreign operating-location statement.

Supports: Hydrokinetic offshore compute vessel concept · core features

Homepage estimates $28–35/MWh LCOE and 1.05 PUE, with LNG backup and satellite communications dependencies.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · summary

A 24m-class cargo vessel being built by KM Yachtbuilders, with twin folding rigid wings and a climate-controlled pallet hold. Autonomy and wind systems are developed by Clippership; construction and class plans do not establish completed delivery.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · core features

Builder lists Dykstra naval architecture, Glosten structural/auxiliary propulsion work and Clippership autonomy/wind systems.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · name

Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · technical tags

The builder specifies an autonomous cargo vessel with twin foldable rigid wings, weather-aware routing and a climate-controlled pallet hold.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · technical tags

The builder specifies an autonomous cargo vessel with twin foldable rigid wings, weather-aware routing and a climate-controlled pallet hold.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · technical tags

The builder specifies an autonomous cargo vessel with twin foldable rigid wings, weather-aware routing and a climate-controlled pallet hold.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · maturity

Builder status is under construction. No completed class certificate, delivered commercial cargo service or independently measured operating result was established.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · technicaldomainslugs

The builder specifies an autonomous cargo vessel with twin foldable rigid wings, weather-aware routing and a climate-controlled pallet hold.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · defence applications

Proposed point-to-point marine freight using wind propulsion.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · commercial availability

The builder’s vessel entry is marked Under Construction.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · core features

Cargo hold capacity is up to 75 Euro-pallets.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · technicaldomainslugs

The builder specifies an autonomous cargo vessel with twin foldable rigid wings, weather-aware routing and a climate-controlled pallet hold.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · capability type

KM Yachtbuilders describes Clippership 78 as an autonomous, wind-powered cargo vessel.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · core features

Construction follows RINA rules with planned Powered Sailing Ship/WAPS class and Maltese flag.

Supports: Clippership 78 wind-powered cargo vessel · core features

Builder specifies 23.95m length, 6.70m beam and 60t displacement.

Supports: Marine engineering partner relationship

Source location: relationships.2.relatedOrganizationName

The builder names Glosten as providing structural and auxiliary-propulsion engineering.

Supports: Marine engineering partner relationship

Source location: relationships.2.relationshipType

Glosten provides structural and auxiliary-propulsion engineering for the vessel according to the builder.

Supports: Marine engineering partner relationship

Source location: relationships.2.publicSummary

The builder identifies Glosten as responsible for structural and auxiliary-propulsion engineering on Clippership 78.

Supports: Naval architecture partner relationship

Source location: relationships.1.relationshipType

Dykstra Naval Architects leads the vessel’s naval architecture according to the builder.

Supports: Naval architecture partner relationship

Source location: relationships.1.relatedOrganizationName

The builder names Dykstra Naval Architects as leading naval architecture.

Supports: Naval architecture partner relationship

Source location: relationships.1.publicSummary

The builder identifies Dykstra Naval Architects as responsible for Clippership 78 naval architecture.

Supports: Shipbuilder relationship

Source location: relationships.0.publicSummary

KM Yachtbuilders lists Clippership 78 under construction at its Dutch yard and identifies the program’s design and systems partners.

Supports: Shipbuilder relationship

Source location: relationships.0.relationshipType

KM Yachtbuilders states that it will build the Clippership 78 vessel.

Supports: Shipbuilder relationship

Source location: relationships.0.relatedOrganizationName

KM Yachtbuilders identifies itself as the builder of Clippership 78.