Ex - USS Simon Lake (AS-33)
| ship, United States Navy
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ship, United States Navy

The Simon Lake was the namesake ship of her class of Submarine Tenders, a modified version of the preceding Hunley Class. She commissioned in 1964 and served briefly out of Charleston before she was forward deployed to Holy Loch, Scotland. She served out her career attending to the submarine fleet tracking down Soviet Subs in the North Atlantic before she decommissioned in 1999.
Layberthed at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard As a member of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until December of 2015, the Simon Lake was stricken from the US Navy Register and placed under the control of the US Maritime Administration (MARAD). Relocated to the James River Reserve Fleet shortly thereafter, she was stripped of reusable materials and subsequently sold for scrapping. The ship departed under tow of the commercial tug Rhea in early February 2019 and arrived at Brownsville for scrapping shortly thereafter.
www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_AS_33.HTML
www.navsource.org/archives/09/36/3633.htm
Layberthed at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard As a member of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until December of 2015, the Simon Lake was stricken from the US Navy Register and placed under the control of the US Maritime Administration (MARAD). Relocated to the James River Reserve Fleet shortly thereafter, she was stripped of reusable materials and subsequently sold for scrapping. The ship departed under tow of the commercial tug Rhea in early February 2019 and arrived at Brownsville for scrapping shortly thereafter.
www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_AS_33.HTML
www.navsource.org/archives/09/36/3633.htm
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Simon_Lake
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°6'54"N 76°38'47"W
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- Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) 143 km
- Dare Bombing Range 164 km
- Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point 364 km
- Naval Air Engineering Station - Lakehurst 379 km
- Naval Weapons Station Charleston 549 km
- Wreck of USS America (CV-66) 626 km
- Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay 834 km
- Naval Air Station Meridian 1203 km
- Guantanamo Bay Naval Base 1913 km
- Chippokes Plantation State Park 7.5 km
- Cobham Bay 9 km
- Surry County, Virginia 22 km
- Isle of Wight County, Virginia 25 km
- Prince George County, Virginia 48 km
- Disputanta, Virginia 53 km
- Southampton County, Virginia 60 km
- Sussex County, Virginia 61 km
- Union Camp Holding Pond 62 km
- Greensville County, Virginia 90 km