1:350 Japanese Heavy Cruiser Tone
Item #78024

DESCRIPTION
Commissioned in 1938, the Tone was the lead ship of her namesake
class of heavy cruisers. She was 189.1m in length, and was
powered by 4 turbines which allowed her to reach a top speed of
35kn. She had a range of 8,000 nautical miles at a 18kn cruising
speed and was armed with 8 x 20cm/50 3rd year type guns (4 twin
turrets), 8 x 127mm guns, 12 x 25mm AA guns, and 12 x 610mm
torpedo tubes and also carried six floatplanes.

During WWII, the Tone was present at many of the major Pacific
Theater engagements. At the beginning of the war, the Tone was
present during the attack on Pearl Harbor and also went on to see
action at the Battle of Java Sea, Battle of Midway, Battle of
the Eastern Solomons, Battle of Santa Cruz, Battle of the
Phillipine Sea, and the Battle of the Leyte Gulf. In July, 1945
the Tone, along with most of the surviving large Japanese Navy
warships, was based at the Kure Naval Arsenal. On July 24th, Task
Force 38 launched a large scale air raid on Kure and Tone was
hit by three bombs which sank her.