Imperial Japanese Navy — Cruiser class
Tone-class cruiser
Tone class
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Preceded by
- Mogami-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Ibuki-class cruiser
- Builders
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 11,213 long tons (11,393 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 15,200 long tons (15,444 t)
- Length
- 201.6 m (661.4 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Main gun
- 203 mm (8 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 203 mm/50 guns (4 x 2)
- 8 × 127 mm/40 guns (4 x 2)
- 12 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns (6 x 2)
- 12 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (4 x 3)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1938) | 1938 | 1939 | Sunk 1944 |
| Japanese cruiser Tone (1937) | 1937 | 1938 | Scrapped 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Tone-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.