[2][3][4] The distillery is located at the top end of South Park, Headington, in the Old Depot of Oxford City Council at the former Cheney Farm.

It was founded in 2017[5] by Tom Nicolson, Cory Mason, and Tagore Ramoutar, distilling rye whisky, gin, and vodka.

The stills are named after the submarine and its captain in the Jules Verne 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

[24] Also in 2020, the distillery started to produce an organic gin for Prince Charles, using herbs from his garden at Highgrove House,[25] stocked at Fortnum & Mason in London.

[26][27] In Spring 2021, the distillery launched its rye whisky,[28][29] produced by the Portuguese master distiller, Chico Rosa.