Patricia Lake

Patricia Van Cleeve Lake (between 1920 and 1923– October 3, 1993), known as Patricia Lake, was an American socialite, actress, and radio comedienne. She was long suspected of being the illegitimate daughter of actress Marion Davies and publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, which she herself admitted shortly before she died.

Parentage

She was born in a hospital outside Paris, France. Her date of birth is not known; according to her Los Angeles Times obituary, "The year was sometime between 1920 and 1923; Lake never knew exactly."

In the 1920s, there was speculation that Lake was the child of Hearst and Davies, who carried on a public affair despite Hearst's being married since 1903 to Millicent Willson. Many reference books state that Lake's parents were Marion Davies' sister Rose and her first husband, George Van Cleeve. The Lake family asserted that the newborn was given to Davies' sister, whose own child had died in infancy, and that the dead child's birth certificate was altered to support the deception. It was reported by CBS News that Hearst is alleged to have acknowledged to Lake on her wedding day that he was her father.

Patricia Lake (Wisconsin)

Patricia Lake is a 32 acre, spring-fed seepage lake close to the town of Minocqua,Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on the border between Onieda and Vilas counties, just south of Wisconsin Highway 70 and northwest of Kawaguesaga Lake.

The lake has no public access and boats with gasoline engines are prohibited. It has a maximum depth of 23 feet, and bluegill, northern pike and largemouth bass can be caught.

There is a small residential development on the northwest shore of the lake, and houses on the north and the eastern sides. Norwood Pines supper club serves food on a screened deck over the lake. On the southwest shore lies Patricia Lake Campground & RV Park. Pine Hill Resort lies to the southeast of the lake, on the shores of the adjacent Kawaguesaga Lake.

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Patricia Lake (Alberta)

Patricia Lake is a lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, near the town of Jasper. It was named for Princess Patricia of Connaught, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

It is connected by hiking trails to the town of Jasper, and other tourist sites such as Pyramid Lake and Pyramid Mountain.

Project Habbakuk

Patricia Lake is notable for its involvement during World War II with Project Habbakuk, a plan to build an unsinkable aircraft carrier from an ice-based composite material termed "Pykrete".

Initial studies of natural lake ice had been carried out at Lake Louise. In January 1943, Patricia Lake was chosen as the test site for building a prototype vessel. The planned vessel was to be 2,000 feet (600 m) long and the prototype was to be a 1:10 scale model of this. In fact, the beam was to approximately this scale, but the length was only 60 feet, about a third of scale.

Patricia Lake was chosen for this work on account of having rail connections at Jasper and being a suitably cold, remote area that already had military training involvement in the area as camouflage. There were also Mennonite and Doukhobor communities nearby, religious conscientous objectors, who could provide the labour needed.