Simon Lake -Salvaging, 1910-1937
Fortunes Under The Sea
Simon Lake had many 'firsts" underwater. He took the first underwater pictures, movie, the first underwater ship-to-shore phone calls and much more.
Scientific American, 1909.
Simon Lake had contracted with Lloyds of London to salvage the Royal Navy's Lutine. Lloyds had insured the frigate's heavy cargo of gold and silver. She went down in 1799 near the Frisian Islands, the majority of her cargo has not been found to this day. The Lake family still retains a Lutine 'Bible', a record book of her cargo with the binding being made of her wooden planks.
On the Sea Floor.
Illustrated London News, 1920. Simon Lake salvage apparatus. He later attempted to locate the Hussar in 1937, a British frigate believed to be secretly carrying gold and silver which sunk off Long Island Sound, NY, in 1780.
