Hmm, I am not sure - this effort kind of wore me out of drawing ships for a little while.
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I had started on the USS North Carolina but just lost steam. I had planned on some sort of Iowa style refit but I don't know when I will get to it.
When you "return" with enthusiasm, you might want to consider these as part of a Alaska class modernization and conversion:
* * Alaska class re-armed with 3"/50 twin, ala USS Juneau during the Korean War. This would have included a HOS helicopter,
vice floatplanes.
* * Limited Missile Conversion: Aft 12" turret removed, pair of TERRIER SAM twin-arm launcher added aft, with SPG directors,
ala Canberra/Boston CAGs....late-50s event.
* * Full "Double-Ended" conversion: Forward 12" turret removed, including forward 5"/38 twin and some bridge rebuild, aft with
removal of both 12" and 5" mounts.
New weapons: FWD:: two TERRIER SAM twin-arm launchers, AFT: twin-arm TALOS SAM - both with appropriate SPG missile control directors.
Option might be either retaining the amidship's twin 5"/38 armored gun turrets or replacing them with Tartar SAM (ala USS Albany)
This conversion would be along lines of the "Albany" Class conversion.
* * Limited SAM Conversion / VLS. Were these cruiser kept in reserve into the Eighties and then pulled-out for reactivation under Reagan - Lehman "600-ship" navy, there might have been a limited SAM missile conversion: Aft 12" and 5" mounts removed and replaced with a pair
of 32-cell VLS launchers.
With this "late" modernization and VLS launchers (for Standard & Harpoon), the ships probably would not have received the big BGM-109 Tomahawk launchers that went to the previously reactivated Iowa class.
What amazing options this would have offered.