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Nautilus The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species in ...
may refer to the following ships:


Naval ships

* , a brig of 185 tons (bm) and 14 guns, launched by the
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in 1806 for the
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. In 1815, after the end of the War of 1812, fired on and captured her, killing and wounding a number of her officers and crew, despite being informed that the war had ended. The Americans released ''Nautilus'' when her captain proved that the war had indeed ended. ''Nautilus'' was wrecked on the Malabar Coast in 1834. * , a number of ships and a submarine of the
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* , two ships of the
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and one of the
Austro-Hungarian Navy The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (german: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short ''k.u.k. Kriegsmarine'', hu, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the A ...
* , a number of ships and submarines of the
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*


Merchant ships and other civilian vessels

* , of 204 tons (bm), was built by Nicholson, Horn & Blenkinsop, of South Shields. She was wrecked off Heligoland in March 1849. * ''Nautilus'', a brig of 60 tons ( bm) that under the command of Captain Charles Bishop between 1796 and 1799 sailed in the South Pacific. Bishop purchased her at Amboyna c. November 1796. She visited Tahiti, and then
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, arriving there in May 1798. From there she sailed to
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where she took 9,000 seal skins before sailing to China. She returned to Port Jackson from China in September 1801, before sailing to Tahiti in May 1802. * , the first practical submarine, built by Robert Fulton * ''Nautilus'', the first motorized
Staten Island Ferry The Staten Island Ferry is a passenger ferry route operated by the New York City Department of Transportation. The ferry's single route runs through New York Harbor between the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island, with ferry ...
from 1817 * ''Nautilus'', the Spanish ship commanded by
Fernando Villaamil Fernando Villaamil Fernández-Cueto (November 23, 1845 – July 3, 1898) was a Spanish naval officer, remembered for his internationally recognized professionalism, for being the inventor of the destroyer warship and for his death in action during ...
which circumnavigated the world from 1892 to 1894. * , formerly ''Activo'', built in Hamburg 1913, used for defence duties in the Arabian Sea during World War II * ''Nautilus'', formerly USS ''O-12'' (SS-73), an ''O-11''-class submarine (1917–1931) used on Hubert Wilkins's and Lincoln Ellsworth's Arctic Expedition of 1931 * , a 1921 Italian tanker torpedoed in 1942 * , a German cargo ship lost in a storm in 1962 * , an exploration vessel (launched 2009) * , a privately built Danish midget submarine (launched 2009, sunk 2017)


Fictional vessels

* , the fictional submarine from Jules Verne's novels ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'' (1870) and ''The Mysterious Island'' (1874) * ''Nautilus'' (spaceship), the fictional luxury space yacht from International Transport Spacelines of Event * ''Nautilus'' (submarine), fictional submarine seen in the film ''Nautilus'' (2000)


See also

* Nautilus (disambiguation)


Citations


References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nautilus Naval history