gained four additional triple-mount 25-mm AA guns aft, bringing its total to 62. The Type 21 radar was replaced with a Type 22. CruDiv 7 was disbanded 21 November and Tone reassigned to CruDiv 5 with Kumano. Once repairs were completed on 18 February 1945, Tone relocated to Etajima, where it was moored for use as a training ship. It was slightly damaged in an air raid on 19 March. Sinking during the bombing of Kure On 24 July 1945, Task Force 38 launched a large air raid against Kure aimed at the final destruction of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Nine aircraft from the light carrier Monterey hit Tone with three bombs, causing her to settle to the bottom of the bay. The hulk was attacked again on 28 July by rockets and armor-piercing bombs dropped by planes from the carriers , and . Tone was removed from the Navy List on 20 November 1945 and scrapped after the war from 1947–1948. References Notes Books External links Tabular record: CombinedFleet.com: Tone history (Retrieved 26 January 2007.) Interview with Paul Brehm of Ticonderoga describing the attack on Tone on 28 July 1945 Two photos of Tone, but you must type Tone in the pic search window, World War II Cruisers Military Times Tone-class cruisers Ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 1937 ships World War II cruisers of Japan Shipwrecks in the Inland Sea Cruisers sunk by aircraft Maritime incidents in July 1945 Ships sunk by US aircraft Japanese war crimes