Japanese cruiser Tone (1937)

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Tone in early 1942. Taken from battleship Hiei.
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Tone
Namesake	Tone River
Ordered	1932 Fiscal Year
Builder	Mitsubishi
Laid down	1 December 1934
Launched	21 November 1937
Commissioned	20 November 1938[1]
Stricken	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°E / 34.233; 132.500. 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)[clarification needed]
Length	189.1 m (620 ft 5 in)
Beam	19.4 m (63 ft 8 in)
Draught	6.2 m (20 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	Gihon geared turbines[clarification needed] 8 oil-fired boilers 152,000 shp (113,000 kW) 4 shafts
Speed	35-knot (65 km/h)
Range	8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement	874
Armament	8 × 20cm/50 caliber Type 3s (4x2) 8 × 127 mm (5 in)/40 guns 12 × Type 96 25 mm (0.98 in) AA guns (6x2) 12 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (4x3)
Armor	100 mm (3.9 in) (belt) 65–30 mm (2.6–1.2 in) (deck)
Aircraft carried	6 x Aichi E13A floatplanes

Tone (利根) 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.