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
Facing the Flag extent, this novel also inspired the climactic scene, at Vulcania, in the 1954 Walt Disney film "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" (adapted from Verne's better known novel of the same name).. In 2012 French comics artist Goux adapted the novel into a comic book, "Le Fulgurateur Roch". Facing the Flag Facing the Flag or For the Flag () is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages Extraordinaires ("Extraordinary Voyages") series. Like "The Begum's Millions", which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon