Nautilus (Verne) assembled by Nemo's men on a desert island. "Nautilus" most likely returned to this island and later helped castaways in the novel "The Mysterious Island". After Nemo dies on board, the volcanic island erupts, entombing the Captain and "Nautilus" for eternity. Beside her original appearance in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Mysterious Island", "Nautilus" and Captain Nemo have appeared in numerous other works. Submarines feature in some other of Verne's works. In the 1896 novel "Facing the Flag", the pirate Ker Karraje uses an unnamed submarine that acts both as a tug to his schooner "Ebba" and
HMS Nautilus (1914) HMS Nautilus (1914) HMS "Nautilus" was a Royal Navy submarine. She was the largest submarine built for the Royal Navy at the time. She was also the first to be given a name. "Nautilus" was designed in response to recommendations for an overseas submarine displacing 1,000 tons and capable of . The resulting design changed from the saddle tanks common at the time to a double hull. The order was given to Vickers in 1912 and her keel was laid down in March 1913. Although launched in 1914 it took until 1917 to complete the vessel. "Nautilus" spent most of