Heavy Cruiser Tone
Open the military map重巡洋艦利根
Cruiser
Tone-class cruiser with unique forward-concentrated gun layout and large seaplane complement. Sunk at Kure during Allied air raids.
Class / type
利根型
Displacement
11,213 Tons
Complement
874
Launched
21 November 1937
Commissioned / formed
20 November 1938
Lost / disbanded
24 July 1945
- Armament
- 20.3cm砲8門（前部集中）、12.7cm高角砲8門、水上機6機
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack
History
Tone-class cruiser with unique forward-concentrated gun layout and large seaplane complement. Sunk at Kure during Allied air raids.
Related sites (2)
- Built32.745, 129.873
Built at the Mitsubishi shipyard, Nagasaki (laid down 1 December 1934, launched 21 November 1937)
- Sunk34.215, 132.435
Etajima Bay, across from Kure — moored off Etajima as a training ship; hit by three bombs from US carrier aircraft on 24 July 1945 and settled on the bottom, attacked again on 28 July; scrapped 1947–48