[lentulusgracchus]

If I were a DD skipper, I would respectfully keep my distance from that floating arsenal.......way too big a shower of sparks if she ever got hit.

Looks like a big, fat target to me. There was a place in Ernie King's Navy for slow-moving, extremely vulnerable, don't-click-your-teeth-too-loudly AE's and LSI(R)'s, but to make a ship like that a ship of the line, and engage enemy combatants directly? Wow.....

[lentulusgracchus]

Come to think of it, that's been done.......someone had the bright idea to bring an ammunition ship within weapons range of the Germans at Anzio. The result was one of the more spectacular photographs of the war, and a bunch of dead American sailors.