and in wartime planning assumptions.
Personnel have been nominated
for all key posts in the DSA and have received training in their
wartime roles.
PBOS
operation of the DSA.
continues to make preparations for the
5 below).
4 The NATO pool (paragraph
(paragraph 1 above) would comprise all ocean-
going merchant ships (broadly 1600 grt and above) brought under
national control by member governments (by requisition or otherwise)
except limited categories that
that could be excluded (see paragraph
The pool would in addition to Alliance-flag shipping
include flagged-out shipping brought under national control by
member governments as well as possibly neutral tonnage on long-term
charters. The pool would also include ships controlled by those
participating directly in the allied
allied effort.
non-NATO countries
5 It has been agreed
agreed that
individual governments could as an
exceptional measure withhold certain ships from the pool in order
to meet their immediate defence and coastal shipping requirements
provided that such exceptions were not
not contrary to the general
objectives of the DSA. The following categories of ships could
so be withheld for defence purposes:
a.
ships which were used in peace-time for naval purposes
as fleet auxiliaries;
b.
merchant-type ships with appropriate physical character-
istics which were required to be taken
taken up
up from trade at or
shortly before the outbreak of hostilities for immediate use
to, specialised wartime naval or military
on, or conversion
service;
C.
merchant-type ships required for the extensive and rapid
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