This battle has clear connections with Nemo’s final attack, also in the English Channel. Butcher stated The Alabama, which claimed to have sunk 75 merchantmen, was destroyed by the Unionist Kearsarge off Cherbourg on 11th June 1864…. In 1998 the Jules Verne scholar William Butcher was the first to identify a possible link between the Birkenhead built Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama and Captain Nemo’s Nautilus. After Nemo dies on board, the volcanic island erupts, entombing the Captain and Nautilus for eternity.Ĭlaimed Links between the Confederate warship CSS Alabama and the Nautilus
Nautilus returned to this island, where Nemo later helped castaways in the novel The Mysterious Island. Then they are assembled by Nemo's men on a desert island. and Laird's in England, Scott's in Scotland, Krupp in Prussia, the Motala workshops in Sweden, and Hart Bros. Its parts are built to order by companies including Creusot and Cail & Co. These amenities however, are only available to Nemo, Professor Aronnax, and his companions.įrom her attacks on ships, using a ramming prow to puncture target vessels below the waterline, the world thinks it a sea monster, but later identifies it as an underwater vessel capable of great destructive power, after Abraham Lincoln is attacked and Ned Land strikes the metallic surface of Nautilus with his harpoon. By comparison, Nemo's personal quarters are very sparsely furnished, but do feature duplicates of the bridge instruments, so that the captain can keep track of the vessel without being present on the bridge. Nautilus also features a lavish dining room and even an organ that Captain Nemo uses to entertain himself in the evening. The library is also filled with expensive paintings and other works of art. These include a library containing about twelve thousand books, with boxed collections of valuable oceanic specimens. Much of the ship is decorated to standards of luxury that are unequalled in a seagoing vessel of the time. Its maximum dive time is around five days. Nautilus is capable of extended voyages without refueling or otherwise restocking supplies. Nautilus is not able to refresh its air supply, so Captain Nemo designed it to do this by surfacing and exchanging stale air for fresh, much like a whale. Nautilus includes a galley for preparing these foods, which includes a machine that makes drinking water from seawater through distillation. Nautilus supports a crew that gathers food from the sea. To submerge deeply in a short time, Nautilus uses a technique called " hydroplaning", in which the vessel dives down at a steep angle.
This leads many early observers of Nautilus to believe that the vessel is some species of marine mammal, or perhaps a sea monster not yet known to science. The pumps that evacuate these tanks of water are so powerful that they produce large jets of water when the vessel emerges rapidly from the surface of the water. Nautilus uses floodable tanks in order to adjust buoyancy and so control its depth. Its surface area totals 1,011.45 square meters, its volume 1,507.2 cubic meters-which is tantamount to saying that when it's completely submerged, it displaces 1,500 cubic meters of water, or weighs 1,500 metric tons. These two dimensions allow you to obtain, via a simple calculation, the surface area and volume of the Nautilus.
So it isn't quite built on the ten–to–one ratio of your high–speed steamers but its lines are sufficiently long, and their tapering gradual enough, so that the displaced water easily slips past and poses no obstacle to the ship's movements. The length of this cylinder from end to end is exactly seventy meters, and its maximum breadth of beam is eight meters. It noticeably takes the shape of a cigar, a shape already adopted in London for several projects of the same kind. It's a very long cylinder with conical ends. Here, Professor Aronnax, are the different dimensions of this boat now transporting you. Nautilus is double-hulled, and is further separated into water-tight compartments. The energy needed to extract the sodium is provided by coal mined from the sea floor. Electricity provided by sodium/mercury batteries (with the sodium provided by extraction from seawater) is the craft's primary power source for propulsion and other services. It is designed and commanded by Captain Nemo. Nautilus is described by Verne as "a masterpiece containing masterpieces".
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