On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:48:50 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Jan 7, 9:44*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
Commissioned in 1915.

http://www.strategypage.com/military...221144413.aspx

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htm.../20091221.aspx

Excellent! I see their point in that it's cheaper to update, then to
scrap and rebuild. I know we do some, but i don't know why we can't do
more of that.

Tim, you ignorant slut. Metal ships cannot be repurposed because the
stress points in the hull would split from fatigue if the
superstructure exceeds 73% of waterline from transom to bow sprit.

Any modern vessel requires a superstructure that would easily exceed
4/5ths of the waterline.

Time to brush up on your periodic table Timmy.