Raphael Semmes
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Raphael Semmes was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He had served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860.
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Semmes and John McIntosh Kell
1864 engraving of the sinking of CSS Alabama
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Nautilus is the fictional submarine belonging to Captain Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island.
Raphael Semmes
…the sinking of the Alabama. In 1998, William Butcher identified a possible link between the Birkenhead, England-built CSS Alabama and Captain Nemo's Nautilus from the 1869 Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Butcher said, "The Alabama, which claimed to have sunk 75 merchantmen, was…
Nautilus under way
Nautilus, as pictured in The Mysterious Island
Captain Nemo and Professor Aronnax discussing the plans of Nautilus
The Grand Salon of Nautilus