Ships named Nautilus
Nautilus is a common ship name:
- HMS Nautilus - nine surface ships (1762–1913), and one submarine (1914–1922)
- USS Nautilus - two surface ships (1799–1859), and two submarines (1930–?), including the world's first nuclear propulsion submarine (1955-1980)
- USS Nautilus II (SP-559), a 66-foot patrol/escort (1917–1919)
- Nautilus (1800), the first practical submarine, built by Robert Fulton in 1800.
- Nautilus - the first steam ferry to serve as the Staten Island Ferry, providing transport from Staten Island, NY to Lower Manhattan, NY in 1817 and commanded by Captain John De Forest.[1]
- Nautilus - the Spanish ship commanded by Fernando Villaamil which completed a world circumnavigation from 1892 to 1894.
- Nautilus - USS O-12 (SS-73), an O-11-class submarine (1917–1931) - bore the name Nautilus during a British civilian expedition commanded by Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins in an unsuccessful attempt to journey below the Arctic sea ice to the North Pole in 1931.
- SS Nautilus - a deep sea fishing vessel constructed in Hamburg, used for defence duties in the Arabian Sea during World War II
- SS Nautilus - a 3,174 GRT German cargo ship lost in a storm in 1962[2]
- MV Nautilus - an Italian tanker sunk in 1942[3]
- EV Nautilus - an exploration vessel (Launched 2009)
- UC3 Nautilus - a privately built Danish submarine (Launched 2009)
- Nautilus (Verne), the fictional ship from Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874)
- The Nautilus from 1990 Gainax anime Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, which takes inspiration from Verne's novels.
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