Natural inside Pleasantville, New Jersey, Lake joined his father's foundry business fallowing attending public schools around New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Flow of any stream experienced the hard interest inside submarine travel. He built his 1st submarine, Argonaut, inside 1894 in response to an 1893 request from the Navy for a submarine torpedo boat. Neither Argonaut nor Flow of any stream's as a result submarine, Protector, built around 1901, were accepted by the Navy. Shielder was a foremost submarine to keep close at hand diving planes mounted forward of the conning tower and a flat keel. 4 diving planes allowed Guardian to maintain depth forgoing changing ballast levels. Guardian too experienced the lock-out chamber for divers to leave the submarine. Flow of any stream, lacking Holland's fiscal angel, was unable to prove my point building submarines in the United States. He sold Shielder to Russia in 1904 and spent the next 7 years around Europe designing submarines for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, the Kaiserliche Marine, and Imperial Russian Navy. Whilst he returned to the United States around 1912, he founded the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, which built 24 submarines for the U.S. Navy when you took & when World War I. Flow of any stream's number one submarine for the U.S. Navy, USS G-1 (SS-19½), placed the immersion record of 256 feet inside November 1912. Fiscal difficulties forced a Flow of any stream Torpedo Boat Company to close in the mid-1920s. As a consequence company closure, Flow of any stream continued designing marine salvage systems, & advised a U.S. Navy in undersea technology & nautical salvage when you took World War II. By his dying, Flow of any stream experienced found a undersea's arrival as a front-line weapon in the U.S. Navy.

A US Navy built a class of vessels for utilise when submarine tenders named in his honor the Simon Lake class; USS Simon Lake (AS-33) was in service between 1964 and 1999.

Book
John J. Poluhowich: Argonaut The Undersea Bequest of Simon Flow of any stream, Texas A&M University Press, November 1999, ISBN 0890968942

Web site
[http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/cno/n87/history/pioneers.html Submarine Pioneers] [http://www.simonlake.com/ The Simon Lake Submarine Web Site, 2003]