Editing Nautilus (fictional submarine) (section)

== Inspirations ==
[[File:Plongeur.jpg|thumb|The ''Plongeur'', inspiration for the ''Nautilus'']]
Verne named the ''Nautilus'' after [[Robert Fulton]]'s real-life submarine [[Nautilus (1800 submarine)|''Nautilus'']] (1800).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Skrabec|first1=Quentin R.|title=The Metallurgic Age: The Victorian Flowering of Invention and Industrial Science|date=2005|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson NC|isbn=9781476611136|page=44|edition=revised|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CAwyBgAAQBAJ&q=verne+nautilus+inspiration+fulton&pg=PA44|access-date=23 February 2017}}</ref> For the design of the ''Nautilus'', Verne was inspired by the [[French Navy]] submarine ''[[French submarine Plongeur|Plongeur]]'', a model of which he had seen at the 1867 [[Exposition Universelle (1867)|Exposition Universelle]], three years before writing his novel.<ref>Notice at the Musée de la Marine, [[Rochefort (Charente-Maritime)|Rochefort]]</ref>

A number of authors have identified a possible link between the Birkenhead, England built [[CSS Alabama|CSS ''Alabama'']] and Captain Nemo's ''Nautilus''.<ref name="jules2">{{cite web |title=Jules Verne and the Heroes of Birkenhead. Part 31. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Part One. |url=https://julesverneandtheheroesofbirkenhead.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/31.-Jules-Vernes-Twenty-Thousand-Leagues-Under-the-Sea.-compressed.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810163051/https://julesverneandtheheroesofbirkenhead.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/31.-Jules-Vernes-Twenty-Thousand-Leagues-Under-the-Sea.-compressed.pdf |archive-date=2022-08-10 |url-status=live |access-date=7 October 2022}}</ref>  The CSS ''Alabama'' was a warship built in secrecy for the Confederate States by Lairds shipyard of Birkenhead, England in the American Civil War. Butcher stated, "The ''Alabama'', which claimed to have sunk 75 merchantmen, was destroyed by the Unionist ''Kearsarge'' off Cherbourg on 11 June 1864... This battle has clear connections with Nemo's final attack, also in the English Channel."<ref>William Butcher Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas - Jules Verne - Google Books Explanatory Notes Page 422 {{ISBN|0-19-282839-8}}</ref> Jules Verne had himself made a previous comparison between the Birkenhead built CSS ''Alabama'' and the ''Nautilus'' in a letter to his publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in March 1869.<ref>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas - Jules Verne - Google Books Explanatory Notes Page 422 {{ISBN|0-19-282839-8}}</ref>