The Second London Naval Disarmament Conference opened in London, the United Kingdom, on December 9, 1935. It resulted in the Second London Naval Treaty which was signed on March 25, 1936. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The signatories were the governments of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The government of Japan, which had been a signatory of the First London Naval Treaty, had withdrawn from the conference on January 15. Italy also declined to sign the treaty, largely as a result of public hostility over her invasion of Abyssinia. The London Naval Treaty was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, signed on April 22, 1930, which to regulate submarine warfare and limited military shipbuilding. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs cleanup. ...

The conference was intended to limit the growth in naval armaments until its expiry in 1942. The absence of Japan (a very significant naval power) prevented agreement on a ceiling on the numbers of warships. The treaty did limit the maximum size of the signatories' ships, and the maximum calibre of the guns which they could carry. For example, submarines could not be larger than 2,000 tons or have a gun armament of greater than 5.1-inches, cruisers were restricted to 8,000 tons or less and capital ships to 35,000 tons and 14-inch guns. An escalator clause was included which allowed capital ships 16-inch guns and 45,000 tons displacement if foreign navies began commissioning such ships. 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Günther Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter-killer (SSK) submarine Inside of the Argonaute, showing the typical obstructed, tiny space of a post-WWII diesel attack submarine. ... USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, launched in 1992. ... The capital ships of a navy are its important warships; the ones with the heaviest firepower and armor. ...

This treaty effectively ended on 1 September 1939 with the beginning of World War II. Even during its brief period of supposed effectiveness, its clauses were honored more in the breach than in the observance; the only "treaty" cruisers the United States commissioned (the St. Louis class light cruiser), for example, were over 5,000 tons heavier than the treaty tonnage. Two classes of "Treaty" Battleships were built by the United States: the North Carolina class and the South Dakota class (the "SoDaks" were designed with and protected against 16-inch guns; the North Carolinas were gunned with 16-inch weapons after Japan refused to accept the Treaty but their protection against those weapons was somewhat substandard). The Iowa class was designed after the beginning of World War II and was developed without any thought in mind of the treaties; other than the monstrous Yamato class, the Iowa class was the heaviest class of battleship ever put to sea (Vanguard was heavier than the Iowas at standard loading, but lighter at full load). September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... The The class light cruisers were United States Navy ships that served during World War II. A small class, they were built as a slight modification of the Brooklyn class, with an improved AA armament and new machinery arrangement. ... The United States Navy built two North Carolina-class battleships: USS North Carolina (BB-55) USS Washington (BB-56) North Carolina and her sister ship Washington were the first Post-Washington Treaty battleships as well as the first of the fast battleships. ... Two classes of battleships have been called the South Dakota class; for the one that cancelled before launching, see South Dakota class battleship (1920). ... The Iowa-class battleships were the biggest, the most powerful, and the last battleships built for the United States Navy. ... Categories: Stub | Ship classes ...

Article 22 of the 1930 Treaty of London relating to submarine warfare declared that international law applied to them as to surface vessels. Also merchant vessels which did not demonstrate "persistent refusal to stop" or "active resistance" could not be sunk without the ship's crew and passengers being first delivered to a "place of safety". The 1936 treaty confirmed that Article 22 of the 1930 treaty remained in force, and "all others Powers [were invited] to express their assent to the rules embodied in this Article" ^{[1] [2]} It was this provision which was used at the post war Nuremberg Trial of Karl Dönitz for ordering unrestricted submarine warfare. International law (also called public international law to distinguish from private international law, i. ... The Süddeutsche Zeitung announces The Verdict in Nuremberg. ... Karl Dönitz (IPA pronunciation:  ); September 16, 1891–December 24, 1980) was a German naval leader, famous for his command of the Kriegsmarine during World War II and for his twenty-day term as President of Germany after Adolf Hitlers suicide. ... Unrestricted submarine warfare is a kind of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships without warning. ...

See also

• Washington Naval Treaty
• Anglo-German Naval Pact
• Treaty of London - List of treaties signed in London.

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Footnotes

1. ^ Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, (Part IV, Art. 22, relating to submarine warfare). London, 22 April 1930
2. ^ Procès-verbal relating to the Rules of Submarine Warfare set forth in Part IV of the Treaty of London of 22 April 1930. London, 6 November 1936