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Imperial Japanese Navy — Heavy cruiser 1937

Japanese cruiser Tone (1937)

Tone-class cruiser heavy cruiser

Japanese cruiser Tone (1937)
Japanese Imperial Navy — Eric Lacroix, Linton Wells II Japanese cruisers of the Pacific war. — Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 882 с. — ISBN 1-86176-058-2 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — 1937 Japanese heavy cruiser Tone anchored in Hashirajima shortly before the battle of Midway, taken from the battleship Hiei. A destroyer is seen behind Tone to the right. This is a cropped and edited version of the image.

Service

  1. Imperial Japanese Navy as Tone20 November 1938 — 20 November 19452,193 days of the war
Tone-class cruiser heavy cruiser Particulars
Name
Tone
Pennant / hull number
1937
Namesake
Tone River
Builder
Mitsubishi
Ordered
1932
Laid down
1 December 1934
Launched
21 November 1937
Commissioned
20 November 1938
Struck
20 November 1945
Fate
Sunk 24 July 1945 by USN aircraft at Kure, Hiroshima region:JP-34_type:event. Raised postwar and broken up at Kure in 1948. (1945)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
11,213 long tons (11,393 t)
Length
201.6 m (661.4 ft)
Beam
19.4 m (63.6 ft)
Draught
6.2 m (20.3 ft)
Speed
35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
Range
8,000 nmi (14,816 km)
Complement
874
Main gun
200 mm (7.9 in)

Tone was a Tone-class cruiser heavy cruiser built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1937. She was named for Tone River. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi on 1 December 1934. Launched on 21 November 1937, she entered service on 20 November 1938.

Her class ran to two ships. The class followed the Mogami-class cruiser and was succeeded by the Ibuki-class cruiser.

Displacement was 11,213 long tons. She measured 201.6 m (661 ft) long with a beam of 19.4 m (64 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 874.

Her main battery was eight 200 mm (7.9 in) guns. She carried six aircraft.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 20 November 1945.

She was broken up for scrap on 24 July 1945.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • Gihon geared turbines
  • 8 oil-fired boilers
  • 152000 shp
  • 4 shafts
Armament
  • 8 × 20cm/50 caliber Type 3 (4x2)
  • 8 × 127 mm/40 guns
  • 12 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns (6x2)
  • 12 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (4x3)
Armour
  • 100 mm (belt)
  • 65 - 30 mm (deck)
Aircraft
  • 6 x Aichi E13A floatplanes

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from Japanese cruiser Tone (1937) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Japanese Imperial Navy — Eric Lacroix, Linton Wells II Japanese cruisers of the Pacific war. — Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 882 с. — ISBN 1-86176-058-2 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons