Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 147" video.

wrt the question about returning Okie and Arizona to service. I have read that Okie was scheduled to be deactivated by mid 42, as it was so obsolete. There is a model of Arizona, as it appears today. Most of the ship forward of the funnel is pancaked, as if the explosion blew out all of the vertical supporting structures, and the decks collapsed on top of each-other. Maine also suffered a magazine explosion in Havana. Maine was salvaged by building a cofferdam around it, cutting off the damaged forward section, and installing a temporary bow. Maine was then towed out to deep water and scuttled. The same could probably have been done with Arizona. As for returning them to service, the best thing would probably be to take a page from the RN's book from WWI, pull the turrets and install them on hastily and cheaply built monitors. The aft two turrets of Arizona were removed and installed as shore batteries. All four 14" turrets on Okie were still in place when she was righted in early 43.
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@DELTATROOPER5555 Looking at the spreadsheet of Tillman specs in the Wiki article, appears Tillman III had a speed of 30kts. With that sort of speed capability, they might have been out with the carriers...but that isn't the question you asked. wrt avoiding the WNT, the US instigated the WNT because the Harding administration didn't want to spend anything building new capital ships, so, if there was no treaty, or there was a loophole large enough to sail a 63,000 ton battleship through, the US would not have built it anyway...but that isn't the question you asked either. To the question you did ask, a rebuilt and modernized Tillman would probably look very much like an Iowa, just as the rebuilt West Virginia looked quite like a South Dakota. The actual Iowas would still be a clean sheet design, rather than a modified Tillman, because designers are constantly having "better ideas".
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