Japanese cruiser Tone (1937)
Japanese heavy cruiser Tone
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Tone |
| Namesake: | Tone River |
| Ordered: | 1932 Fiscal Year |
| Laid down: | 1 December 1934 |
| Launched: | 21 November 1937 |
| Completed: | 1938 |
| Commissioned: | 20 November 1938 |
| Struck: | 20 November 1945 |
| Fate: | sunk 24 July 1945 by USN aircraft at Kure, Hiroshima 34°14′N 132°30′E / 34.233°N 132.500°ECoordinates: 34°14′N 132°30′E / 34.233°N 132.500°E. Raised postwar and broken up at Kure in 1948. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tone-class heavy cruiser |
| Displacement: | 11,213 tons (standard); 15,443 (final) |
| Length: | 189.1 m (620 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 19.4 m (63 ft 8 in) |
| Draught: | 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) |
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| Speed: | 35-knot (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 874 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 6 x Aichi E13A floatplanes |
Tone (利根 重巡洋艦 Tone jūjun'yōkan?) was the lead ship in the two-vessel Tone class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after the Tone River, in the Kantō region of Japan and was completed on 20 November 1938 at Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipyards. Tone was designed for long-range scouting missions and had a large seaplane capacity. She was extensively employed during World War II usually providing scouting services to their aircraft carrier task forces. She almost always operated in this capacity in conjunction with her sister ship Chikuma.
At the end of 1941, Tone was assigned to CruDiv 8 with her sister ship, Chikuma, and was thus present during the attack on Pearl Harbor. That day, 7 December 1941, Tone and Chikuma each launched one Aichi E13A1 "Jake" floatplane for a final weather reconnaissance over Oahu. At 0630, Tone and Chikuma each launched short-range Nakajima E8N "Dave" two-seat floatplanes to act as pickets and patrol south of the Striking Force. Tone's floatplane flew to Lahaina, but found no American fleet units present. During the subsequent attack, the battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia and California were sunk and Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Maryland and many smaller ships were damaged.
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