Why awkward postwar battleships would become donor ships

How would navies use three 1947 battleships whose main guns were all amidships?

Most major navies would treat them as donor ships, salvaging engines, guns, and armor for better-designed hulls.

The hypothetical ships combine nine 16-inch guns amidships with 8-inch weapons at the ends, creating an arrangement the panel finds operationally unattractive. A navy without alternatives might use them, but an established fleet could extract the long-lead components instead. Engines, guns, armor, and mountings could be transferred into new hulls designed around workable arcs and internal layouts. The material value of a warship can survive even when the aggregate design does not.