Annachie wrote:The power of plot compels you.
Although ...
If you had a really long term plan to steal an Iowa class, and get it back to sea, then arranging for the ammunition to be misplaced, stealing the plans, even aquiring the spares, well it's not exactly out of the realms ...
More likely than mis-identifying one at least.
...You need firstly to completely rip out her old powerplant and replace it with new. Because otherwise her old boilers would blow up as soon as the steam pressure start to build. Turbine blades are probably worn-out also, everything mechanical is jammed tight and wasn't lubricated for years.
And there are no spare parts for most of her components anymore. And no plants that produced them, no engineers, that knew how to build them and how to operate the machinery anymore.