The US did the same thing with the USS San Francisco after it collided with an undersea seamount in 2005 and nearly sank. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U

The US did the same thing with the USS San Francisco after it collided with an undersea seamount in 2005 and nearly sank. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Collision_with_seamount https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Co... "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."