Tone in 1910 |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Tone |
| Ordered: | 1904 Fiscal Year |
| Builder: | Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan |
| Laid down: | 17 November 1905 |
| Launched: | 24 October 1907 |
| Completed: | 5 May 1910 |
| Struck: | 1 April 1931 |
| Fate: | Expended as target, 30 April 1933 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 4,113 long tons (4,179 t) normal 4,900 long tons (4,979 t) maximum |
| Length: | 113.8 m (373 ft 4 in) w/l |
| Beam: | 14.4 m (47 ft 3 in) |
| Draught: | 5.1 m (16 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating VTE engines; 16 boilers; 15,500 hp (11,600 kW) 900 tons coal, 124 tons oil |
| Speed: | 23 knots (26 mph; 43 km/h) |
| Range: | 7,340 nmi (13,590 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 370 |
| Armament: | • 2 × 152 mm (6 in) quick firing guns • 10 × 120 mm (4.7 in) quick firing guns • 4 × 80 mm (3.1 in) quick firing guns • 3 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | Deck: 67 mm (2.6 in) Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in) |
Tone (利根) 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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The Tone was designed and built in Japan by the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, 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.
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.
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