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The Nautilus is a submarine from 20.000 Leagues under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. by Jules Verne.
Description & Dimensions[]
Here, M. Aronnax, are the several dimensions of this boat you are in. It is an elongated cylinder with conical ends. It is very like a cigar in shape, a shape adopted in London for several constructions of the same sort. The length of this cylinder from stem to stern, is exactly 70 meters (230 feet), and its maximum breadth is 8 meters (26.2 feet). It is not quite built like your long voyage steamers, but its lines are sufficiently long, and its curves prolonged enough, to allow the water to slide of easily, and oppose no obstacle to its passage. These two dimensions enable you to obtain, by a simple calculation the surface and cubic content of the Nautilus. Its surface area totals 1,011.5 square meters (10887.2 square feet); and its volume 1,507.2 cubic meters (1971.3 cubic feet); that is to say, when completely immersed it displaces 1,500 cubic meters (52,972 cubic feet) of the water, or weighs 1,500 metric tons (1,653.5 US tons).
When I made plans for this submarine vessel, I meant that nine-tenths should be submerged: consequently, it ought to only displace nine-tenths of its bulk, that is to say, only to weigh that number of tons. I ought not, therefore, to have exceeded that weight, constructing it on the afore said dimensions.
The Nautilus is composed of two hulls, on inside, the other outside, joined by T-shaped irons, which render it very strong. Indeed; owing to this cellular arrangement resists like a block, as if it were solid. Its sides cannot yield; it coheres spontaneously, and not by the closeness of the rivets; and the homogeneity of its construction, due to the perfect union of its materials, enables it to defy the roughest seas.
External Links[]
- The Nautilus on the Evil Wiki.