Some Figures S ome details of the Nautilus as described by Verne are subject to interpretation and some may have been obscured in translation, but many are clearly stated.
Additional information is scattered throughout the novel.
Here's a summary of the details. T he Nautilus had a cylindrical hull 70 meters long and 8 meters wide. The four bladed propeller was six meters in diameter with a pitch of 7.5 meters. When the Nautilus accidentally rammed the Scotia it produced a two-meter triangular hole. There was an ordinary rudder fixed to the stern and two diving planes fastened to the sides at the center of floatation.