Japanese cruiser Tone (1937)
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.jpg) Tone in early 1942. Taken from battleship Hiei.
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| History | |
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 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 . 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) |
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| Speed | 35-knot (65 km/h) |
| Range | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 874 |
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| Aircraft carried | 6 x Aichi E13A floatplanes |
Tone (利根) was the
World War II
Early Pacific War
At the end of 1941, Tone was assigned to CruDiv 8 with her sister ship, Chikuma, and was thus present during the attack on Pearl Harbor. That day, 7 December 1941, Tone and Chikuma each launched one Aichi E13A1 "Jake" floatplane for a final weather reconnaissance over Oahu. At 0630, Tone and Chikuma each launched short-range Nakajima E4N2 Type 90-2 Reconnaissance Seaplane to act as pickets and patrol south of the Striking Force. Tone's floatplane flew to Lahaina, but found no American fleet units present. During the subsequent attack, the battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia and California were sunk and Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Maryland and many smaller ships were damaged.
On 16 December, CruDiv 8 was ordered to assist in the second attempted invasion of
Battle of the Java Sea
On 1 March 1942, Tone spotted the old American
Indian Ocean Raids
On 5 April 1942, Tone was part of a major task force which launched 315 aircraft against British-held
Battle of Midway
At the crucial
Rear Admiral
Battle of the Eastern Solomons
On 24 August 1942, CruDiv 7's Kumano and Suzuya arrived to join the reinforcement fleet for Guadalcanal. The following morning, a Consolidated PBY Catalina spotted Ryūjō, which Douglas SBD Dauntlesses and Grumman TBF Avengers from Enterprise unsuccessfully attacked. Seven floatplanes from Tone and Chikuma were launched to locate the American fleet. One of Chikuma's planes spotted the Americans, but was shot down before its report could be relayed. However, a second floatplane was more successful, and the Japanese launched an attack against Enterprise, hitting it with three bombs which set her wooden deck on fire. However, in the meantime, the Americans located the Japanese fleet, and Ryūjō was sunk by planes from the carrier Saratoga. Tone was attacked unsuccessfully by two Avengers whose Mark 13 torpedoes missed, returning to Truk safely.
Battle of Santa Cruz
Through October, Chikuma and Tone patrolled north of the
Tone supported Japanese reinforcement efforts at
From 1 March 1944, Tone was assigned to
Battle of the Philippine Sea
On 13 June 1944, Admiral
Battle of Leyte Gulf
On 23 October 1944, Tone along with the cruisers Kumano, Suzuya and Chikuma, sortied from Brunei towards the Philippines with Admiral Takeo Kurita's First Mobile Striking Force. The battle group was attacked by submarines while steaming through the Palawan Passage. The cruisers Atago and Maya were sunk, and Takao was damaged. As the force entered the Sibuyan Sea on 24 October, the Center Force suffered eleven raids by aircraft from the carriers of Task Group 38.2. Musashi was sunk and Tone was hit by bombs. The following day during the Battle off Samar, the battleships Yamato, Nagato, Haruna and the cruiser Myōkō were damaged. Tone engaged the American destroyer Heermann but was driven away by air attack. She escaped back through the San Bernardino Strait without further damage, but Tone's sister ship Chikuma was lost, along with the cruisers Chōkai and Suzuya.
Drydock and use as a training ship
On 6 November, Tone departed
Sinking during the bombing of Kure
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On 24 July 1945, Task Force 38 launched a
References
Citations
- ^ Lacroix, Japanese Cruisers, p. 794
- ^ "MV 'The Behar'". Cofepow.org.uk. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
Books
- Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X.
- D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X.
- Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
- 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. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
- Lacroix, Eric; Wells, Linton (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3.
- Whitley, M. J. (1995). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-141-6.
External links
- Parshall, Jon; Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander; Nevitt, Allyn. "Tone class". Imperial Japanese Navy Page (Combinedfleet.com). Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- Tabular record: CombinedFleet.com: Tone history (Retrieved 26 January 2007.)
- Interview with Paul Brehm of Ticonderoga describing the attack on Tone on 28 July 1945
Two photos of Tone, but you must type Tone in the pic search window,
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