When I was stationed at MCAS EL Toro, CA back in the 90's I got a call from the Orange County Sheriff's Bomb Squad. They said they had a Torpedo at a salvage yard in Long Beach. So I grabbed the response van, a 3/4 ton Dodge cargo van and drove to the salvage yard. I was met at the entrance by the Bomb Squad Sgt and given directions to where it was located. As I was driving to it, I was thinking what would it be this time... A hot water heater, nope... a gas bottle, nope...
I drove around the corner and in the middle of two piles of scrap the size of college football stadiums was... a big assed, all brass torpedo!
I'm like WTF!!! I looked it over and figured out that the warhead and guidance sections were missing and the front and rear were bolted together. So I had the Bomb Squad and Fire Fighters help me load it in the van (it weighed close to a ton and I ended up with about 6 feet of it hanging out the back doors) and drove it back to the EOD Shop via the 110 and 405.
The next week, we took it apart and faxed pictures of it to Keyport, WA to get a positive ID on it. Luckily it turned out to be a Mk 48 Mod 0, which was battery powered and not OTTO Fuel II.
We put it back together, polished it up and built a display stand to put it on in the shop.
It looked like this one below with the middle section missing.
BTW, this was on Thanksgiving day!