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The Nautilus was Captain Nemo's submarine.

History

New Earth

The Nautilus was built by Arthur Gordon Pym, after he gained powers from a mysterious energy forced called “vril”. He built the Nautilus in 1866 to be powered by vril energy, then under the name “Captain Nemo” he used it to do piracy on several vessels, including the Mary Celeste in 1872. The submarine was destroyed in a maelstrom, but Pym escaped to have future adventures.[1]

Prime Earth

The Nautilus was a submarine built by Prince Dakkar, who used it to do science-piracy under the name “Captain Nemo” in the 1860s. Under unknown circumstances, Dakkar and the Nautilus were knocked into the Blue.[2] There, it was eventually destroyed when Dakkar allied with Aquaman to defeat Dagon, the godlike entity who dominated the residents of that field.[3]

Dakkar took one of the "blueships" used by Dagon's forces and rechristened it the Nautilus.[4]

Wildstorm Universe

The Nautilus was presumably active in the 19th century[5]. However, its final voyage was in the 1950s, where it sank as part of an adventure of the daredevil William Leather.[6]

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The Nautilus was built by Prince Dakkar in 1866, on Lincoln Island in the South Pacific. As Captain of the Nautilus, Nemo divorced himself from society and became known as a "science pirate", and a scourge of the high seas. It was presumed destroyed multiple times, but Nemo would always rebuild it. In June of 1898, Nemo responded to a direct request by British Secret Service to become part of a "menagerie" of special agents acting in defense of the British Empire. Although Nemo despised the British, he agreed to lend his services to the crown and the Nautilus became a de facto base of operations for this "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".

Notes

This vehicle is an adaptation of The Nautilus, a submarine from the novel 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' by Jules Verne, published in 1870. More information can be found in the Wikipedia.org article Nautilus.


See Also

Links and References


  1. ↑ Young All-Stars #16
  2. ↑ Aquaman (Volume 9) #5
  3. ↑ Aquaman (Volume 9) #8
  4. ↑ Aquaman (Volume 9) #9
  5. ↑ Planetary #11
  6. ↑ Planetary #6