Apart from the Article 9 carrier-conversion exception, the scrapping provision forbids reconverting a designated ship into a warship. The proposed evasions exploit the time and other uses between designation and final destruction. A hull could become a coastguard asset or a training establishment attached to land. A scrapyard could also leave it afloat for years. First World War ships that lingered into the mid-1930s illustrate how delayed disposal might leave a hull available close to another war, although their later reactivation is a hypothetical possibility.
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Keeping condemned warships available through other uses
Training use and slow scrapping could preserve old hulls even after a treaty designated them for disposal.