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(b) Not less than four months before the date of the laying of the keel, the following particulars in respect of each such vessel: — Name or designation: Category and sub-category: Standard displacement in tons and metric tons: Length at waterline at standard displacement: Extreme beam at or below waterline at standard displacement: Mean draught at standard displacement: Designed horse-power: Designed speed: Type of machinery: Type of fuel: Number and calibre of all guns of 3 in. (76 mm.) calibre and above: Approximate number of guns of less than 3 in. (76 mm.) calibre: Number of torpedo tubes: Whether designed to lay mines: Approximate number of aircraft for which provision is to be made. (c) As soon as possible after the laying-down of the keel of each such vessel, the date on which it was laid. (d) Within one month after the date of completion of each such vessel, the date of completion together with all the particulars specified in paragraph (b) above relating to the vessel on completion. (e) Annually during the month of January, in respect of vessels belonging to the categories and sub-categories mentioned in paragraph (a) above: — (i) Information as to any important alterations which it may have proved necessary to make during the preceding year in vessels under construction, in so far as these alterations affect the particulars mentioned in paragraph (b) above. (ii) Information as to any important alterations made during the preceding year in vessels previously completed, in so far as these alterations affect the particulars mentioned in paragraph (b) above. (iii) Information concerning vessels which may have been scrapped or . otherwise disposed of during the preceding year. If such vessels are not scrapped, sufficient information shall be given to enable their new status and condition to be determined. (/) Not less than four months before undertaking such alterations as would cause a completed vessel to come within one of the categories or sub-categories mentioned in paragraph (a) above, or such alterations as would cause a vessel to change from one to another of the said categories or sub-categories, information as to her intended characteristics as specified in paragraph (b) above. Article 13. No vessel coming within the categories or sub-categories mentioned in Article 12 (a) shall be laid down by any High Contracting Party until after the expiration of a period of four months both from the date on which the Annual Programme in which the vessel is included, and from the date on which the particulars in respect of that vessel prescribed by Article 12 (b), have reached all the other High Contracting Parties. Article 14. If a High Contracting Party intends to acquire a completed or partially completed vessel coming within the categories or sub-categories mentioned in Article 12 (a), that vessel shall be declared at the same time and in the same manner as the vessels included in the Annual Programme prescribed in the said Article. No such vessel shall be acquired until after the expiration of a period of four months from the date on which such declaration has reached all the other High Contracting Parties. The particulars mentioned in Article 12 (b), together

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