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
Jules Verne Trophy holder of the trophy, Francis Joyon, also holds the around the world sailing record, this has not always been the case. In 2004 Steve Fossett broke the world record with the catamaran "Cheyenne" but was not awarded the trophy. According to reports, the trophy organizers requested a higher entrance fee from Fossett than from the other competitors, the difference which he refused to pay. The winner of the trophy that year was Olivier de Kersauson on "Geronimo", with a time which was five days slower than Fossett's world record. The "Trophy Jules Verne" was the subject of a public order