You might want to contact the US "National Maritime Historical Society" in Peekskill, NY which at one of its meetings was related a captured submarine, from WWII (I am interested in Mr. Holland's Torpedo Co., the submarine headquarters once on Broadway in New Suffolk, NY, pre 1903, the origin of the "Silent Service" monument recently placed there attests to it, on the North Fork of Long Island having seen one of his small prototype submarines on exhibit in New Jersey while a math teacher there) which before scuba, was thought to be safe after testing to be sunk in local waters. However, there were live torpedoes still in it and present a hazard to "sport diving" on it. The report was presented at one of the Society's annual meetings and showed the corrosion of the torpedo fuses.
Incidentally, after the submarines left New Suffolk for New London, Connecticut, it was where Albert Einstein (whom I think I read once worked on an Italian torpedo problem? Anyone heard that?) posted a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him of fission experiments in Europe, creating the impetus for the "Manhattan Project" which he would have no part of. He was vacationing across the bay from New Suffolk on Nassau Point. Unfortunately, the country store/post office burned down in the 1990s.
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