Vicente Salias recognition of the Supreme Junta of Caracas as the legitimate councilor of Venezuela in the absence of the King. Salias along with Mariano Montilla were sent by the Junta to Jamaica and Curaçao to spread the news about revolutionaries events in Venezuela.In charged of the Ministry of Finance, and collaborated with General Francisco de Miranda during the First Republic of Venezuela. He was captured by the Spaniards and was transferred to the castle of Puerto Cabello and Valencia, which then was released 1813. Salias fought alongside Simon Bolivar, Venezuela's liberator, and in the year 1814 he was captured and executed
USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) conversion of her ballistic missile system to support Trident C-4 ballistic missiles. Upon completion of overhaul she returned to her home port of Charleston in January 1981. "Simon Bolivar" continued to make deterrent patrols, undergoing occasional refits at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay Georgia, and was awarded her 4th and 5th Battle "E"'s in 1982 and 1990. She successfully launched a Trident test missile in the summer of 1983. In 1994 "Simon Bolivar" returned from its 73rd and final strategic nuclear deterrent patrol, 28 years after it departed port for its 1st patrol. Master Chief Hospital Corpsman (HMCM (SS)) William