USS Simon Lake
Simon Lake at Kings Bay in 1981 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Simon Lake |
| Namesake | Simon Lake |
| Builder | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington |
| Laid down | 7 January 1963 |
| Launched | 8 February 1964 |
| Commissioned | 7 November 1964 |
| Decommissioned | 31 July 1999 |
| Fate | Transferred from Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia to National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River 2015, scrapped 27 February 2019 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Simon Lake-class submarine tender |
| Displacement | 12,686 long tons (12,890 t) |
| Length | 644 ft (196 m) |
| Beam | 85 ft (26 m) |
| Draft | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 boilers, steam turbine, single shaft |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 1,420 |
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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.
The ship was laid down on 7 January 1963 by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington; launched on 8 February 1964; sponsored by Mrs. Cecil Ford and Mrs. Herbert Diamond; and commissioned on 7 November 1964.