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
Soviet submarine S-178 and she was stricken. Her commander, Captain Third Rank Marango, and Kurdyukov, the master of "RFS-13", were both sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Книга памяти – С-178 Soviet submarine S-178 С-178 (S-178) was a Project 613B (NATO: ) diesel submarine of the Soviet Navy. On 21 October 1981, "S-178", under the command of Captain Third Rank V.A. Marango, was transiting on the surface at , returning to base after two days of sound trials. The sea state was 2 (less than one-metre waves) and night time visibility was unlimited. The starboard diesel was under repair, so the propulsion plant was