Ships named Nautilus
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Nautilus
is common ship's name in several languages:
Nautilus
Nautilus is the common name of marine creatures of cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species in two genera, the type of which is the genus Nautilus...
is common ship's name in several languages:
- HMS NautilusHMS NautilusIn addition to several other ships, ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor. was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1762 and put up for sale in 1780. was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1784 and wrecked in 1799. was a 14-gun brig-sloop built c. 1794 and...
- nine surface ships (1762–1913), and one submarine (1914–1922) - USS NautilusUSS NautilusFour ships of the U.S. Navy have been named USS Nautilus. after the Greek derivative meaning sailor or ship which gave also gave name to a tropical mollusk having a many chambered, spiral shell; and the submersible in Jules Verne's novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.* USS Nautilus , a 12-gun...
- two surface ships (1799–1859), and two submarines (1930–1980)- USS Nautilus II (SP-559), a 66-foot patrol/escort (1917–1919)
- Nautilus (1800), the first practical submarine, built by Robert Fulton in 1800.
- The fictional ship NautilusNautilus (Verne)The Nautilus is the fictional submarine featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island . Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus...
from Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874) - Nautilus, the Spanish ship commanded by Fernando VillaamilFernando VillaamilFernando Villaamil was a Spanish naval officer, remembered for his internationally recognized professionalism, for being the designer of the first destroyer warship in history and for his heroic death in the naval Battle of Santiago de Cuba of the Spanish-American war, being the highest ranking...
which completed a world circumnavigation from 1892 to 1894. - USS O-12 (SS-73)USS O-12 (SS-73)USS O-12 was an O-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 6 March 1916 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut....
, an O-11-class submarine (1917–1931), which bore the name Nautilus during a civilian arctic expedition in 1931 - SS NautilusSS NautilusSS Nautilus, a 300 ton vessel, was built in the 1913 in Hamburg, Germany and originally named Activo.Activo fell into British hands, probably as a captured German ship, who re-registered it under the name SS Nautilus and they in turn sold it to the Ceylon government which was then part of the...
- 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
- MV Nautilus, an Italian tanker sunk in 1942