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that 1t cannot be put to COM
batant use.
II. This result must be finally
erected in any one of the follow
ing ways:
vessel:
-(b) Breaking the vessel up. This
shall always involve the destruc-
tion or removal of all machinery,
boilers and armor, and all deck, side
and bottom plating:
(c) Converting the vessel to
target use exclusively. In such
case all the provisions of para
graph III Of this part, except sub
paragraph CO... in so far as may
De used as a mobile target, and
except subparagraph O, must
be previously complied with. Not
more than one capital ship may
be retained for this purpose at
one time by any Of the contract
ing powers.
(dD of the capital ships which
would otherwise be scrapped un-
under the present treaty in or
a,, after the year 1881. France and
Italy may each retain two sea-
going vessels for training pur-
poses exclusively, that is, as gun
merry or torpedo schools. The two
vessels retained by France shall
be of the Jean Bart class, and of
those retained by Italy one shall
be the Dante Alighieri. the other
of the Giulio Cesare class. On
retaining these ships for the pur-
pose above stated, France and
Italy, respectively, undertake to
remove and destroy their coming
towers and not to use the said
ships as vessels of war.
III. (a) Subject to the special
exceptions contained in article TX,
when a vessel is due for scrap
ping the first stage Of scrapping,
which consists in rendering a ship
incapable of further warlike serv-
ice. shall be Immediately UNDER
taken.
(b) A vessel shall be considered
incapa BILE of further warlike serv-
ice when there shall have been
removed and landed, or else de-
stroyed in the ship:
% All guns and essential por-
tions of guns, fire-control tops
and revolving parts of all bar
bettes and turrets;
(2) All machinery for working
hydraulic or electric mountings:
(O All fire-control instruments
and range finders;
90 All ammunition. explosives
and mines:
(5) All torpedoes, warheads and
torpedo tubes;
t6} An wireless telegraphy in
CD The coming tower and all
side armor, or, alternatively, all
main propelling machinery; and
90 All landing and fiying-off
platforms and all other aviation
accessories.
~. The periods in which scrap
ping of vessels is to be effected
are as follows:
(a) In the case Of vessels to be
scrapped under the first paragraph
or article II, the work of rem
derlng the vessels incapable Of
further Waralike service, in ac-
cordance with paragraph III Of
this part, shall be completed with
IN six months from the coming
INTO force of the present treaty.
ana the scrapping shall be finally
from such coming into force.
Cd In the case of vessels to be
scrapped under the second and
third paragraphs of article II. or
unoer article III. the work of rem
derlng the vessel incapable of fur
ther warlike service, in accordance
WIN paragraph III of this part,
~ later IMAM
the date Of completion of it's sue
cessor and shall be finished with
IN SIX months from the date Of
such completion. The vessel shall
De finally scrapped. in accordance
with paragraph II of this part.
within eighteen months from the
GATE OF completion of its sue
cessor. If. however, the connie.
tion OF the new vessel be DELAYED,
then the work of rendering the
old vessel incapable of further
Warlike service. in accordance with
paragraph III of this part, shall
ne commenced within four years
from the laying of the keel of
me new vessel and Shall be fin-
ished within six months from the
cate on which such work was com
menced. and the old vessel shall,
pe nnally scrapped, in accordance
WIN paragraph II of this part.
Wlthln eighteen months from the
gate when the work Of renderine
II incapable Of further warlike
service was commenced.
Replacement,
The replacement of capital sb,ns
ana aircraft carriers shall take
place according to the rules in
section I and the tables in section
IL OF this part.