Torpedo found by dolphin

Rico hopes they don't send it away; it'd be cool to see; Peter C. Salisbury has the story in the San Diego Reader:

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR) reported that one of its dolphins discovered an old torpedo last month just off the shore of the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, California, during a mine-hunting training exercise.
Members of SSC Pacific, based at Naval Base Point Loma, study and train marine mammals in counter-terrorism, helping guard ports, personnel, and military vessels as well as doing underwater mine-hunting work.
During recent training, a dolphin searching a specific area reported to its handler that an object was detected and another dolphin was sent to confirm and mark its location so that Navy divers could recover it.
The recovered torpedo, designed by Lieutenant Commander John A. Howell, was used between 1870 and 1889 by Navy battleships and torpedo boats. The Howell torpedo was an eleven-foot-long, 580-pound brass torpedo driven by a large flywheel spun to ten thousand rpm prior to launch. It had a range of four hundred yards, a speed of twenty-five knots, and a warhead filled with a hundred pounds of gun cotton.
The Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Washington, houses the only other known Howell torpedo in existence, and the latest find will soon be shipped by air to the Naval History and Heritage Command, located at the Washington Navy Yard, unless the City of Coronado and its large population of Navy retirees, military veterans, and active-duty Navy men express an interest in keeping the find for the Coronado Historical Association & Museum or possibly the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

Rico says the large contingent of active-duty and retired Navy in San Diego (including Rico's father) should get on the stick and keep this thing there... (And why no photos, dammit?)