Nautilus (Verne) Nautilus (Verne) Nautilus is the fictional submarine captained by Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) and "The Mysterious Island" (1874). Verne named the "Nautilus" after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine "Nautilus" (1800). For the design of the "Nautilus" Verne was inspired by the French Navy submarine "Plongeur", a model of which he had seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, three years before writing his novel. "Nautilus" is described by Verne as "a masterpiece containing masterpieces". It is designed and commanded by Captain Nemo. Electricity provided by sodium/mercury batteries (with the sodium provided by extraction
Captain Nemo sacred Author of all things! ... Nothing more is now wanting to our island". His emblem, as given in a description of the flag he raised when claiming Antarctica, is a large golden N on a black field. The motto of the "Nautilus" was "Mobilis in mobili", which may be roughly translated from Latin as, "moving amidst mobility", "moving within the moving element", or "changing in the changes". In the initial draft of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Nemo was a Polish noble, a member of the szlachta, resenting the murder of his family during the Russian repression of