Japanese cruiser Tone (1904)
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 The Japanese protected cruiser Tone (1910) |
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| Career |  |
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| Built: | Sasebo Naval Yards, Japan |
| Ordered: | 1904 Fiscal Year |
| Laid down | November 17 1905 |
| Launched: | October 24 1907 |
| Completed: | May 5 1910 |
| Fate: | sunk as target April 30 1933 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4113 tons (normal), 4900 tons (max) |
| Length: | 113.8 meters @ waterline |
| Beam: | 14.4 meters |
| Draught: | 5.1 meters |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft receiprocating VTE engines, 16 boilers; 15500 HP |
| Speed: | 23 knots |
| Fuel: | 900 tons coal, 124 tons oil; Range: 7340 nm @ 10 knots |
| Complement: | 370 |
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The Tone (利根) was a 2nd class protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built in Japan by the Sasebo Naval Yards, under the 1904 Emergency Fleet Replenishment Programme. The Tone was named after a river in Tokyo.
It was the last ship in the Imperial Japanese Navy to be powered by a reciprocating engine.
The Diet rejected the Imperial Japanese Navy's request for a sister ship. Although dimensionally similar to the British-built Yoshino, the Tone had the raked funnels and clipper bow that would be a feature of future Japanese warships.
Between 1924 and 1929, the Tone served as station ship on the Yangtze River around Shanghai. It was transferred to the reserves at Sasebo on 30 November 1929.
Stricken from the Navy list on 01 April 1931, and renamed Haikan No 2, the Tone was expended as an aircraft target off Amami Oshima on 30 April 1933.
It should not be confused with the heavy cruiser Tone of the Pacific War era.
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