Another factor against their coming back is that there is no longer any U.S. Navy facility large enough for such an undertaking.
Today, there are eight retired U.S. Battleships that have been maintained as floating mseums. In addition to the role of service each played, the elements have not been kind to these old warships.
The USS Texas is currently undergoing repairs as her hull is leaking. (It is also the oldest battleship, havong taken part in World War I.) Significant restorations were necessary to save the South Dakota-class USS Massachusetts. A special cofferdam had to built to do work on another South Dakota-Class battleship, the USS North Carolina.
The other non-Iowa-class battleship is the USS Alabama.
The four Iowa-class battlewagons, which were the last battleships launched by the U.S., are in better condition, but the USS New Jersey recently underwent its first major replacement of its wooden decks in decades.
--GreGen
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