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
Nautilus (Verne) for ramming and destroying ships which are the targets of his piracy. The same book also features HMS "Sword", a small Royal Navy experimental submarine which is sunk after a valiant but unequal struggle with the pirate submarine. In the book "The Master of the World", Robur's secondary vehicle, "Terror", is a strange flying machine with submarine, automobile and speedboat capabilities. It briefly eludes naval forces on the Great Lakes by diving. Jules Verne's text in "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" provides a great deal of information about "Nautilus" as discussed on this page: Jules Verne's "Nautilus". Many artists and