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 Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's novels, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) and "The Mysterious Island" (1874), and makes a cameo appearance in Verne's play "Journey Through the Impossible" (1882). Nemo is a mysterious figure. The son of an Indian Raja, he is a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the "Nautilus", which was built in pieces all over the world and shipped to the builder. Nemo tries