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The ''Nautilus'' was the fictional Submarine featured in Jules Verne 's novels '' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea '' and '' The Mysterious Island ''. The ''Nautilus'' was named after Robert Fulton 's submarine ''Nautilus'' . The ''Nautilus'' was designed and commanded by Captain Nemo , a former Indian prince, engineer and scientist. Electricity provided by sodium/mercury Batteries (with the sodium provided by extraction from Seawater ) provides her with power for propulsion and other services. The ''Nautilus'' is constituted of two hulls, separated in water-tight compartments. Her top speed is 50 Knots . Her displacement is 1356.48 French Freight Tons immerged (1507 submerged). In Captain Nemo's own words:
The Nautilus used floodable tanks in order to adjust Buoyancy and so control its depth. The pumps that evacuate these tanks of water were so powerful that they produced large jets of water when the vessel emerged rapidly from the surface of the water. This led many observers of the Nautilus to believe that the vessel was some sort of Whale . The Nautilus supported a crew who must gather or farm food from the sea to eat. The nautilus includes a Galley for preparing these, which includes a machine that makes Drinking Water from Seawater through Distillation . The nautilus is not able to refersh its air supply except by surfacing and exchanging stale air for fresh. Despite this weakness, the Nautilus seems capable of extended voyages in the open sea without refuelling or otherwise restocking supplies. Much of the ship is decorated to standards of Luxury that are unequalled in a seagoing vessel of the time. These include a huge library with boxed collections of oceanic specimens that were unknown to science at the time. The Nautilus also featured a lavish dining room and even an Organ that Captain Nemo used to entertain himself. By comparison, Nemo's personal quarters were very sparsely-furnished, but did feature duplicates of the bridge instruments, so that the captain could keep track of the vessel without being present on the bridge. From her attacks on ships, using a ramming prow to puncture target vessels below the waterline, the world thought it a Sea Monster . Her parts were built to order in Le Creusot , London , Liverpool , Glasgow , Paris , Prussia ( Krupp ), Motala ( Sweden ), New York , etc. Then the pieces were assembled by Nemo's men on a deserted island. Nemo and his ''Nautilus'' played pivotal roles in Alan Moore's two graphic novels chronicling the exploits of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen . At the end of ''Twenty Thousand Leagues'', the ship is sucked into the Maelstrom . As it later turns out, she survived and found her final end in a cave of the ''Mysterious Island''. APPEARANCES Beside her original appearance in '' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea '' and '' Mysterious Island '', the ''Nautilus'' also appears in numerous other works:
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