[Mr. Lucky]

I was posting only in jest, but the fact is that an Iowa class battleship has a higher top speed than a Burke class destroyer, provides a much more stable platform (and can withstand an attack by a couple of crazed Muslims in a row boat).

[AFreeBird]

It would be an interesting exercise to modernize one for this duty. But it would cost. I could see replacing the engineering plant with diesel/turbine electric generators (gonna need power generation anyway), and the drive units from mechanical to electrical (why maintain boilers to power the drive steam turbines.

[WellyP]

1.34 X square root of the length of waterline will give you the hull speed!