USS Simon Lake (AS-33) was the lead ship of her class of submarine tenders in the United States Navy, named for Simon Lake, a pioneering designer of early submarines.
USS Simon Lake (AS-33) at Kings Bay in 1981
The submarine USS Francis Scott Key taking on Trident C-4 missiles from USS Simon Lake at Kings Bay, Georgia, on 2 October 1981
Simon Lake was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy.
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Simon Lake 1919 invention for ocean salvage