Apparently, the Navy has decided to take the bow off the USS Honolulu and weld it onto the San Francisco, even though the San Francisco is four years older than the Honolulu. Their reasoning behind this is that the San Francisco had just undergone a $170-million nuclear refueling, while the Honolulu has not. The estimated cost of repairing the San Francisco is currently sitting at $79-million.
That being said, you couldn't pay me enough money to get on the San Francisco after she rejoins the fleet, sometime in late 2008 or early 2009.