Could modern yards build for battleship-gun recoil?

Can modern industry still build ship structures able to handle battleship-gun weight and recoil?

Yes; the plans and engineering knowledge survive, though yards would need to relearn dormant production techniques.

Documented designs preserve the underlying structural methods. The missing element is current workforce familiarity and production practice, not an absence of engineering information. Modern yards would need to restore tooling, quality controls, and practical experience for very heavy mountings and recoil loads. That relearning would be costly and slow, but it is different from rediscovering a lost scientific principle.