What was the name of the submarine in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"?

Captain Nemo is the lead character of the two novels by Jules Verne, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) and "The Mysterious Island" (1874). In both novels he commands the fictional sophisticated submarine named the Nautilus. Verne was inspired by two real submarines: Robert Fulton's Nautilus, which gave the fictional machine its name, and Plongeur, which was studied by the writer at the 1867 Exposition Universelle.

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Keith Murray

Worked at Disney. Painted many parts and pieces for 20 K.

Mel Stein

And that was the names of the first U.S. nuclear submarine

Kevin Dale Streets

I really had to "work out" to get this one!

mrtrump

konrad, it's because the south pole is in Antarctica and that's an entire continent

Quiz Taker

Saw this movie in the theater when I was around 9 or 10 years old. That squid freaked me out!

lrszanto

I love movies, especially old ones.

Spencer

Repeat question.

konrad

I HAD MUCH FUN, YEARS AGO, WHEN THE AMERICAN SUBMARINE NAUTILUS WENT UNDER THE ARCTIC. I kept asking my friends and acquaintances why hadn't a submartine gone under the SOUTH POLE yet. Very funny. You may ask just that in one of your quizzes..