SIMON LAKE AS 33

Ship Name and Designation History

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Simon Lake Class Submarine Tender Keel Laid 7 January 1963 - Launched 8 February 1964 USS SIMON LAKE AS-33 Commissioned 7 November 1964 - Decommissioned 31 July 1999 Struck from Naval Register 25 April 2006 Laid up at NISMF Portsmouth, VA. slated for disposal

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1. USS Simon Lake AS-33 Covers Page 1    (1964-99)

 

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type FDPS 2(n+)

1964-11-07

First Day Postal Service, Cachet by Morris W. Beck

 

Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)

1966-09-22

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Locy Type 2t(n+u)

1969-09-22

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Locy Type 2-1(n+) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-95a

1978-05-24

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Locy Type 2-1(n+) (A,USS)

1990-02-01

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Locy Type 7tn+uy (FPO 09501)

1973-12-09

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Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS)

1990-04-24

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Locy Type Meter OFR2 (#520231) ZIP 09536

1990-07-27

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Locy Type 2-1(n+)(USS)

1999-06-25

Inactivation Ceremony, cachet by Al Banasky

 

Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS)

1999-06-25

Inactivation Ceremony, cachet by Al Banasky

 

Other Information

USS SIMON LAKE earned the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (4 awards), the Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (7 awards), the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Armed Forces Service Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Simon Lake (September 4 1866 - June 23 1945)
Lake competed with John Holland to build the first submarines for the U.S. Navy. Lake joined his father's foundry business after attending public schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Lake had a strong interest in undersea travel. He built his first submarine, Argonaut, in 1894 in response to an 1893 request from the Navy for a submarine torpedo boat. Neither Argonaut nor Lake's following submarine, the Protector, built in 1901, were accepted by the Navy. Protector was the first submarine to have diving planes mounted forward of the conning tower and a flat keel. Four diving planes allowed Protector to maintain depth without changing ballast levels. Protector also had a lock-out chamber for divers to leave the submarine. Lake, lacking Holland's financial backers, was unable to continue building submarines in the United States. He sold the Protector to the Russian Navy in 1904 and spent the next seven years in Europe designing submarines for the Austrian, German, and Russian navies. When he returned to the United States in 1912, he founded the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, which built 24 submarines for the U.S. Navy during and after World War I. Lake's first submarine for the U.S. Navy, G-1 set a submergence record of 256 feet in November 1912. Financial difficulties forced the Lake Torpedo Boat Company to close in the mid-1920s. Following company closure, Lake continued designing maritime salvage systems, and advised the U.S. Navy on submarine technology and maritime salvage during World War II. By his death on June 23, 1945, Lake had witnessed the submarine's arrival as a front-line weapon in the U.S. Navy

 

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