This view is looking forward towards the bow of the Protector. It can be seen that the torpedo tube inner doors are actually in the compartment with the bench seats. Spare torpedoes are being kept under the bench seats, although that would limit the number of torpedoes that could be carried. The watertight door leads into the diving compartment, and a crewman can be seen sitting in there.
Library of Congress photo.
This view inside Protector is looking aft from the area of the torpedo tube breech doors. It is quite possible that the man lying on the settee sleeping is Simon Lake. He appears to be older and has a mustache. The view is looking aft and through the "pantry" where food could be prepared into the engine room, where two men are looking at the camera.
This photo taken inside the Simon Lake submarine Protector in January 1904. In February 1904 the Protector was sold to the Russian Navy at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. The calendar above his head firmly dates this photo to January or early February 1904 before the Protector was sold to Imperial Russia as the "Osetr". Lake spent the next seven years in Europe designing submarines for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, the Kaiserliche Marine, and Imperial Russian Navy.
