Japanese cruiser Tone (1907)
 Tone in 1910
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| History | |
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 Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Tone |
| Ordered | 1904 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down | 17 November 1905 |
| Launched | 24 October 1907 |
| Completed | 5 May 1910 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1931 |
| Fate | Expended as target, 30 April 1933 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Armour |
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Tone (利根, Innate Aptitude) was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after the Tone River in Tokyo.
Background
Tone was designed and built in
Diet of Japan rejected budgeting for a sister ship
or for subsequent construction of the same design.
Design
Although dimensionally similar to the British-built Yoshino, Tone had the raked funnels and clipper bow that would be a feature of future Japanese warships.[1]
Her powerplant consisted of two Mitsubishi vertical 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines with 16 Miyabara boilers, driving two screws. The boilers could run on a mixed-mode of coal sprayed with oil, and could drive the ship at a maximum speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph), with an endurance of 7,400 nautical miles (13,700 km; 8,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). Tone was the last ship in the Imperial Japanese Navy to be powered by a reciprocating engine.[2]
Her
QF 4.7-inch guns and four QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval guns. Tone also had three deck-mounted 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes.[2]
However, the foremost of the 4.7-inch secondary guns were located in a cramped location with a very limited field of fire, and were soon removed and not replaced. After World War I, two 76 mm (3 in) anti-aircraft guns were added just aft of the first smokestack.
Tone utilized
Krupp armor with a thickness of 38–76 mm (1.5–3.0 in) on the decks, and 102 mm (4.0 in) on the conning tower. The design did not incorporate any side armor.[2]
Tone was
launched on 24 October 1907, and completed on 15 May 1910.[4]
Service record
Soon after completion, from 1 April 1911 to 12 November 1911, Tone was sent as part of the official Japanese naval delegation to
Kurama
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In
sea lanes in the Indian Ocean and also occasionally in the Dutch East Indies against German commerce raiders and U-boats, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance .[5]
Between 1924 and 1929, Tone served as a station ship on the
on 30 November 1929.Stricken from the
navy list on 1 April 1931, and renamed Haikan No 2, the ship was expended as an aircraft target off Amami Ōshima on 30 April 1933.[6]
Notes
- ^ Jentsura, Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy; page 103
- ^ a b c Chesneau, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, page 236
- ^ Navweapons.com
- ^ Watts & Gordon. Imperial Japanese Navy. p. 125.
- ISBN 1-85109-420-2.
- ^ Howarth, The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun
References
- Chesneau, Roger (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- David C. Evans; Mark R. Peattie (1997). Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-192-8.
- Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895-1945. Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11402-8.
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
- Roberts, John (ed). (1983). 'Warships of the world from 1860 to 1905 - Volume 2: United States, Japan and Russia. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz. ISBN 3-7637-5403-2.
- Schencking, J. Charles (2005). Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4977-9.
- Tucker, Spencer C (2005). Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, And Military History. ABC-Clio Inc. ISBN 1-85109-420-2.
- Watts, Anthony; Gordon, Brian. The Imperial Japanese Navy. Macdonald. ISBN 035603045-8.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tone (ship, 1910).
- DiGiulian, Tony. "Japanese 15.2 cm/45 (6") Type 41". NavWeaps.com.
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