SIMON LAKE AS 33
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
Keel Laid January 7 1963 - Launched February 8 1964 |
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- Covers Page 1 (1965-99)
Postmarks
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THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
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1965-08-31 |
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1978-05-24 |
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1997-11-07
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1973-12-09 |
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1990-04-24 |
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1990-07-27 |
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1999-07-31
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Decommissioning
Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS
Other Information
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (4) - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (7) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - Armed Forces Service Medal
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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