Simon Lake non-Navy Submarines
Simon Lakes' Protector Interior
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.
It is suspected from examining this photo that the man laying on the settee sleeping is most probably Simon Lake. He appears to be older and has a mustache. This is little evidence to go on but since Lake spent most of his time perfecting and trying out his designs it is a reasonable assumption this is Simon Lake.
The view is looking aft and through the "pantry" where food could be prepared into the engineroom wher two men are looking at the camera.
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 settees. Spare torpedoes are maybe being kept under the settees though that would limit the number of torpesoes that could be carried.
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