Japanese ship Tone

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At least three warships of Japan have borne the name Tone:

Japanese cruiser Tone (1907), a protected cruiser; participated in the World War I Siege of Tsingtao; stricken in 1931 and sunk as an aircraft target in 1933
Japanese cruiser Tone (1937), lead ship of the Toneclass of heavy cruisers; sunk in the July 1945 Bombing of Kure; raised and scrapped, 1947–1948
JS Tone, an Abukuma-class destroyer escort launched in 1991

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Tone (利根) was the lead ship in the two-vessel Tone class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after the Tone River, in the Kantō region of Japan and was completed on 20 November 1938 at Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipyards. Tone was designed for long-range scouting missions and had a large seaplane capacity. She was extensively employed during World War II usually providing scouting services to their aircraft carrier task forces. She almost always operated in this capacity in conjunction with her sister ship Chikuma.

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