Regretfully, I would not hold my breath. When dealing with phpbbplanet with my forum, they seemed sort of a bare-bones type of company and the main reason I moved my forum was that I had little faith that they would be around much longer.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/CanisD/Never_Weres/Raw_Drawings/USA/Old_Battleships/th_SoDaktripod.gif I found the picture here: http://aaminis.myfastforum.org/archive/south-dakota-bb-49-__o_t__t_22730.html Supposedly they would have been completed with tripods instead of cages and the desig...
There were some thoughts about at least some of the Dakotas having tripods. It might not be too far of a stretch for the last ships built to be finished with them.