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The Plongeur, inspiration for the Nautilus. Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus (1800). [6] 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 attracts some 250,000 visitors annually to her present berth near Naval Submarine Base New London. [38] Nautilus celebrated the 50th anniversary of her commissioning on 30 September 2004 with a ceremony that included a speech from Vice Admiral Eugene P. Wilkinson, her first Commanding Officer, and a designation of the ship as an ...
Nautilus is the name of several submarines, submersibles, and semisubs. They are named for the nautilus. Military subs. Nautilus (1800 submarine), a French First ...
In the 67 years since the Navy launched the world's first nuclear-powered sub, USS Nautilus, its boats have only gotten more capable and more deadly.
Nautilus was wrecked on the Malabar Coast in 1834. [1] HMS Nautilus, a number of ships and a submarine of the Royal Navy; SMS Nautilus, two ships of the Imperial German Navy and one of the Austro-Hungarian Navy; USS Nautilus, a number of ships and submarines of the U.S. Navy; HNLMS Nautilus, a number of ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy
USS Nautilus (SF-9/SS-168), a Narwhal-class submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. [ 12 ] Construction and commissioning
USS H-2 (SS-29) was a H-class submarine. She was originally named Nautilus, the third ship and first submarine of the United States Navy to bear the name, which was derived from a Greek word meaning "sailor" or "ship." The nautilus is also a tropical mollusk having a many-chambered, spiral shell with a pearly interior. It was also the name of ...
Nautilus-class submarine may refer to: Nautilus -class submarine (1913) , an Italian class of submarines including the Italian submarine Nereide (1913) Nautilus -class submarine (1914) , a single-build class of British Royal Navy diesel-electric propulsion submarines