Japanese cruiser Tone (1904)
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 The Japanese protected cruiser Tone (1910) |
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| Builder: | Sasebo Arsenal, Japan |
| Ordered: | 1904 Fiscal Year |
| Laid down | 17 November 1905 |
| Launched: | 24 October 1907 |
| Completed: | 5 May 1910 |
| Fate: | expended as target 30 April 1933 |
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| Displacement: | 4,113 tons (normal), 4,900 tons (max) |
| Length: | 113.8 meters @ waterline |
| Beam: | 14.4 meters |
| Draught: | 5.1 meters |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating VTE engines; 16 boilers; 15,500 HP |
| Speed: | 23 knots |
| Fuel: | 900 tons coal, 124 tons oil; Range: 7,340nautical miles @ 10 knots |
| Complement: | 370 |
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The IJN Tone (利根 防護巡洋艦 Tone bōgojunyōkan?) was a 2nd class protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Tone was named after the Tone River in Tokyo.
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[edit] Background
The Tone was designed and built in Japan by the Sasebo Arsensal, under the 1904 Emergency Fleet Replenishment Program to recover from losses to the Japanese navy in the Russo-Japanese War. 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. It completion was delayed considerably due to budgetary restraints, and the Diet rejected the Imperial Japanese Navy's request for a sister ship.
The Tone was the last ship in the Imperial Japanese Navy to be powered by a reciprocating engine.
[edit] Service Life
Soon after completion, from 1 April 1911 to 12 November 1911, the Tone was sent as part of the Japanese naval delegation to Great Britain, as part of the coronation celebration for King George V.
In World War I, the Tone was assigned to the Japanese 2nd Fleet, and accompanied Japanese forces during the Battle of Tsingtao against the Imperial German Navy. Afterwards, it was re-assigned to the Japanese 3rd Fleet, and was based out of Singapore, from whence it patrolled the sea lanes in the Indian Ocean and also occasionally in the Dutch East Indies, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
Between 1924 and 1929, the Tone served as station ship on the Yangtze River around Shanghai, China. It was transferred to the reserves at Sasebo on 30 November 1929.
Stricken from the navy list on 1 April 1931, and renamed Haikan No 2, the Tone was expended as an aircraft target off Amami Ōshima on 30 April 1933.
The protected cruiser Tone should not be confused with the later heavy cruiser Tone of the Pacific War era.
[edit] Gallery
 IJN Tone at Portsmouth |
 IJN Tone in 1911 |
 IJN Tone at unknown date |
 IJN Tone in 1918 |
[edit] References
- Evans, David. Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. US Naval Institute Press (1979). ISBN 0870211927
- Howarth, Stephen. The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895-1945. Atheneum; (1983) ISBN 0689114028
- Jane, Fred T. The Imperial Japanese Navy. Thacker, Spink & Co (1904) ASIN: B00085LCZ4
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press (1976). ISBN 087021893X
- Schencking, J. Charles. Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. Stanford University Press (2005). ISBN 0804749779
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