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  Tone 1910

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
利根 [Tone]			Sasebo K K	17.11.1905	24.10.1907	15.5.1910	stricken 4.1931

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4113
Displacement full, t	4900
Length, m	113.8 wl 109.8 pp
Breadth, m	14.4
Draught, m	5.10
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 4-cyl VTE, 16 Miyabara boilers
Power, h. p.	15000
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	coal 900 + oil 124
Endurance, nm(kts)	7340(10)
Armour, mm	shields: 25, deck: 76 - 38, CT: 102
Armament	2 x 1 - 152/45 41-shiki, 10 x 1 - 120/40 41-shiki, 4 x 1 - 76/40 41-shiki, 3 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	370

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Project history

A second class cruiser laid down under the Third Fleet Law of 1903, Navy request for a sister ship was rejected. The clipper bow was the first in Japanese service.

Ship protection

38mm deck had 76mm slopes, guns were protected by 25mm shields.

Modernizations

1910: - 2 x 1 - 120/40

1924: + 2 x 1 - 76/40 3-shiki

Naval service

After retirement Tone was converted to a target and in April, 1933 was sunk by air bombs on manoeuvres.