June 23, 1945 (, Yiyou May 14), the the submarine inventor Simon Lake, died. Reference June 1945 23 Simon Lake, inventor of the modern submarine in the Bridgetown Port, Connecticut, USA, died at the age of 78.

1894 (history TodayOnHistory.com) Lake his first submarine design drawings provided to the U.S. Navy, but was rejected. So he took his invention to go abroad. He went back to work after a few years in the Soviet Union Bridgetown Port, Lake torpedo boat.
war, built more than 100 submarines, of which 55 is made for the United States. German U-type warship bombing of Allied ships in war is manufactured according to the Lake of the invention.
Lake most submarines are warships, but one of the main purpose of his shipbuilding maritime rescue and do business. In the 1930s, in order to salvage the vessel containing gold valued at $ 4.8 million back to sink into the Hudson river bottom in 1780, he took great pains. But the fate of the poor, which consumes a large property.