Super common to do stuff like this, when the USS San Francisco struck a sea mount (killing 1) she was repaired by replacing her bow with the bow of the soon-to-

Super common to do stuff like this, when the USS San Francisco struck a sea mount (killing 1) she was repaired by replacing her bow with the bow of the soon-to-be-decommed USS Honolulu. >In June 2006, it was announced that San Francisco's bow section would be replaced at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard with the bow of USS Honolulu, which was soon to be retired. San Francisco is four years older than Honolulu, but she had been refueled and upgraded in 2000–2002. The cost of her bow replacement has been estimated at $79 million, as compared with the estimated $170 million to refuel and overhaul the nuclear reactor of Honolulu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711) It's also common to cut cruise ships in half and add to the middle to make them bigger https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-04/why-cruise-lines-keep-cutting-their-ships-in-half-for-stretching https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-04/why-cruis... Of course, now that I read the article they actually mentioned the San Francisco.