I should have posted this before, but here is a pic of what is really buried in the park in Bremerton, the USS Fox (Torpedo Boat #13).

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h98000/h98427.jpg

I remember that conversation but was interesting to reread the article.
Here is a google search for the location.


If you want to read the article you can go here:
http://web.kitsapsun.com/news/2000/april/0416a1b.html

Even checking the "US Naval Submarine Force Information Book" written by JIm Christley, the master of submarine trivia, states, " ...possibly the hull which was buried under a parking lot at the end of Sheldon St., Bremerton, WA The identity was not clear. Possibly sold for scrapping in Norfolk in 1931."