JS Tone
{{short description|Abukuma-class destroyer escort}}
{{Other ships|Japanese ship Tone}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
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}} {{Infobox ship image | Ship image =File:JS Tone (DE-234).jpg | Ship caption = JS Tone }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = Japan | Ship flag = {{Shipboxflag|Japan|naval}} | Ship name = *Tone
| Ship namesake = Tone (1937) | Ship ordered = 1989 | Ship awarded = | Ship builder = Sumitomo, Tokyo | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down =8 February 1991 | Ship launched =6 December 1991 | Ship sponsor = | Ship christened = | Ship completed = | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned =8 February 1993 | Ship decommissioned = | Ship renamed = | Ship reclassified = | Ship refit = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship homeport = *Sasebo | Ship identification = *{{MMSI Number|431999576}}
| Ship motto = | Ship nickname = | Ship honours = | Ship fate = | Ship status = Active | Ship notes = | Ship badge = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = {{Sclass|Abukuma|destroyer escort}} | Ship displacement = *2,000 tons standard
| Ship length = {{convert|357|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|44|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draft = {{convert|12|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship power = | Ship propulsion = *CODOG, two shafts
| Ship speed = {{convert|27|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range = | Ship endurance = | Ship boats = | Ship troops = | Ship complement = 120 | Ship sensors = FCS-2 | Ship EW = | Ship armament = *8 × Harpoon missiles
| Ship armor = | Ship aircraft = | Ship aircraft facilities = | Ship notes = }} |
JS Tone (DE-234) is the sixth ship of the {{sclass|Abukuma|destroyer escort}}s. She was commissioned on 8 February 1993.{{Cite book|last=Takao|first=Ishibashi|title=All Maritime Self-Defense Force Ships 1952-2002|publisher=Namiki Shobo|year=2002|isbn= |pages= }}{{Page needed|date=November 2024}}
Construction and career
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Tone was laid down at Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Tokyo Shipyard on 8 February 1991 and launched on 6 December 1991. She was commissioned on 8 February 1993 and deployed to Sasebo.{{Cite book|title=World Ships Special Edition 66th Collection Maritime Self-Defense Force All Ship History|publisher=Gaijinsha|year=2004|isbn= |pages= }}{{Page needed|date=November 2024}}
From 2–4 August 1999, Tone visited Busan, South Korea with the escort vessels {{ship|JS|Shirane}} and {{ship|JS|Setoyuki}}, and she conducted the first Japan-Korea joint training in the East China Sea from the 4–5 August.
It was planned for the destroyer escort to be open to the public at Shibushi Port, along with the escort vessels {{ship|JS|Sendai}}, JS Sawakaze, and the transport vessel {{ship|JS|Ōsumi}} at the Kanoya Air Festival held from 19 to 20 May 2001, but near Fukuejima, a Chinese Navy ice-breaking information gathering ship was sailing offshore, so the activity was canceled so that the ships could track and monitor the Chinese vessel. After leaving Sasebo on 2 October 2001, she engaged in warning and surveillance activities with the US Navy amphibious assault ship {{USS|Essex|LHD-2|6}}.
Around 5:30 PM on 16 February 2016, the Chinese Navy's East Sea Fleet sailed {{convert|85|km}} East-Northeast of Taneshima from the Pacific Ocean to the East China Sea. The frigate {{ship|Chinese frigate|Yantai|538|2}}, spy ship {{ship|Chinese spy ship|Tianlangxing||2}}, and supply ship {{ship|Chinese supply ship|Honghu||2}} were discovered together by P-3C aircraft belonging to the 5th Air Group and the support ship {{ship|JS|Genkai}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2016/press_pdf/p20160217_02.pdf |title=Joint Start Press Release report |date= |website=mod.go.jp |access-date=5 November 2024 |quote= |language=Japanese |trans-title= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222011459/https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2016/press_pdf/p20160217_02.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2016 }} After that, four ships were spotted heading West through the Ōsumi Strait. On 25 December, the Joint Staff Office of the Ministry of Defense announced that Tone was in the waters of the Central East China Sea at around 4 PM on the 24th of December, with the Chinese Navy aircraft carrier {{ship|Chinese aircraft carrier|Liaoning||2}}, three missile destroyers, three frigate ships, and one supply ship, visually confirming the aircraft carrier's presence. This is the first time that the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force had visually confirmed the aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy.{{cite web|url=https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2016/press_pdf/p20161225_01.pdf |title=中国海軍艦艇の動向について |date= |website=mod.go.jp |access-date=5 November 2024 |quote= |language=Japanese |trans-title=Chinese Navy vessel movements |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225083905/https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2016/press_pdf/p20161225_01.pdf |archive-date=25 December 2016 }}
Gallery
File:JS Tone departs Osaka for the Open Exercise 2011, -25 Sep. 2011 a.jpg|JS Tone departing Osaka on 25 September 2011.
File:DE-234とね 艦尾.JPG|JS Tone at Kure on 10 November 2012.
File:Tone, Abukuma, Sendai, Samidare en Kurobe afgemeerd op berth E in Kure, -20 september 2015 a.jpg|JS Tone, {{ship|JS|Abukuma}}, {{ship|JS|Sendai}}, {{ship|JS|Samidare|DD-106|6}} and {{ship|JS|Kurobe}} at Kure on 20 September 2015.
Citations
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