Nautilus (fictional submarine)

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Nautilus is Captain Nemo’s advanced, electrically powered submarine from Jules Verne’s novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," famed as one of literature’s earliest and most iconic depictions of futuristic undersea travel.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jules Verne character
fictional submarine
vehicle in literature
appearsIn The Mysterious Island
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
surface form: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
armament electric rifles (used by crew on dives)
ram for sinking ships
captainedBy Captain Nemo
creator Jules Verne
crewSize about 20 men
designFeature airlock for diving operations
art gallery
cigar-shaped hull
double hull
library
observation lounge with large viewing windows
pipe organ
ram bow
energySource electric batteries
sea-based sodium extraction (fictional)
firstAppearanceForm novel
firstAppearanceYear 1870
foodSource resources harvested from the sea
genre science fiction
homeBase The Mysterious Island
surface form: secret island base (The Mysterious Island)
hullMaterial steel
inspired later fictional submarines
real-world submarine naming conventions
languageOfOrigin French
lifeSupport self-contained air supply system (fictional)
literarySignificance influential in shaping later science fiction depictions of undersea travel
one of the earliest detailed depictions of a submarine in fiction
medium underwater
namedAfter nautilus (cephalopod)
navigation advanced navigational instruments (fictional)
notableJourney under the Antarctic ice cap
visit to Atlantis (in some adaptations and interpretations)
operatedBy Captain Nemo’s loyal crew
operationalStatusInCanon ultimately destroyed in The Mysterious Island
originalTitleWork Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
surface form: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
poweredBy electricity
propulsionType electric propulsion
settingPeriod 19th century
symbolism isolation from society
scientific exploration
technological marvel
titleCharacterRelation primary setting of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
travelScope global undersea voyages

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Subject: Nautilus (fictional submarine)
Description of subject: Nautilus is Captain Nemo’s advanced, electrically powered submarine from Jules Verne’s novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," famed as one of literature’s earliest and most iconic depictions of futuristic undersea travel.

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film) setInLocation Nautilus (fictional submarine)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film) portraysFictionalEntity Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus (submarine)
USS Nautilus namedAfter Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus (fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s novels)
Nemo basedOn Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
Nemo forkOf Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas setting Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: submarine Nautilus
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas featuresVehicle Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
Professor Pierre Aronnax travelsOn Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
Professor Pierre Aronnax transportedBy Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
Ned Land travelsOn Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
Ned Land vessel Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
Conseil associatedWith Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
James Mason as Captain Nemo commandsVessel Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
SSN-571 namedAfter Nautilus (fictional submarine)
subject surface form: USS Nautilus
this entity surface form: Nautilus (Jules Verne’s fictional submarine)
Nautilus-class submarine namedAfter Nautilus (fictional submarine)
this entity surface form: Nautilus
Nautilus inspiredBy Nautilus (fictional submarine)
subject surface form: Nautilus (Trader Sam's cocktail)
this entity surface form: Nautilus submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea