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...largest single loss was $4,467,336 on the steamer Argonaut and the largest single payment was $2,200,000 for the loss of the Standard Oil tanker John D. Archbold...
...000th patent was Simon Lake, inventor and pioneer in submarine experiment. His original submarine, the Argonaut, is still in the yard of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., of Bridgeport. His latest, No. 1,500,000, is described under SCIENCE...
...resident of Baltimore, Simon, who is 58 years old, has long been prominent in the development of undersea navigation. In the early 90's he competed for the contract to build the first Government submarine. A rival won the award, but in 1897 Mr. Lake launched the Argonaut, first submersible to operate successfully in the open sea. Speaking on the development of the submarine, he once said : "My first trip was in the Argonaut down Chesapeake Bay. Night was coming on and we de cided to come to the surface...
...Argonaut : " Just a little too patently ' written down ' to meet moron intellects...
Died: George Shapley Downing, 36, assistant superintendent of the Argonaut Mining Co., at a hospital in San Francisco. He suffered a col- lapse from his extreme exertions in the attempted rescue of 46 miners entombed in the Argonaut gold mine last September...