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
Jules Verne (train) stock was a rake of SNCF Mistral 69-type , being an A4Dtux, two A8u, two A8tu, one A3rtu and one Vru. On 10 May 1982, the train's rolling stock was replaced by SNCF , which were otherwise in the same formation. The Grand Confort coaches were painted in a distinctive red, orange, light grey and slate grey livery. Throughout the "Jules Verne"s existence, its dining car was staffed by the "Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits" (CIWL). Jules Verne (train) The Jules Verne was an express train that linked Paris and Nantes in France. Operated by the "Société Nationale des Chemins de