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
French submarine Nautilus (1930) French submarine Nautilus (1930) The French submarine "Nautilus" was a built for the French Navy in the mid-1930s. Laid down in August 1927, it was launched in March 1930 and commissioned in July 1931. "Nautilus" was disarmed at Bizerte, Tunisia and captured there on 8 December 1942 by Italian forces. On 31 January 1943, it was sunk at Bizerte during an Allied air raid. "Nautilus" was raised but not repaired and finally stricken on 12 August 1947. long, with a beam of and a draught of , "Saphir"-class submarines could dive up to . The submarine had a surfaced displacement