IJN Tone
It was designed for long-range scouting missions and had a large seaplane capacity. It was extensively employed during World War II usually providing scouting services to their aircraft carrier task forces.
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- Type: heavy cruiser
- Historical period: World War II, 1944
- Country: Japan
- Scale: 1:200
- Number of sheets: 26 sheets A3
Historical information
IJN Tone was the lead ship in the two-vessel Tone-class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. It 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. It was extensively employed during World War II usually providing scouting services to their aircraft carrier task forces.
It almost always operated in this capacity in conjunction with its sister ship Chikuma.
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