It’s Official! - Captain Nemo’s Nautilus was built in Birkenhead, England.
Wednesday 23 June, 2021
Liverpool 23/6/21
Abstract
In the 1869 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the novelist Jules Verne writes that Captain Nemo’s Nautilus was completed at a ‘secret desert island location’ using different parts shipped in from across the world.
In a long list of manufacturers, Jules Verne slips in almost unnoticed that the iron plates of the hull of the Nautilus were made at ‘Laird’s of Liverpool’, which in... Читать дальше...