Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Tone Class Cruisers

Also searchable as Tone Class.

Related time notes

  1. Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...
    47:06Tone-class layout puts air search ahead of balanced gunneryNotable Point
  2. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    37:40Kido Butai's escort strength and surface riskChapter
  3. Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability
    1:11:00Tone-class scouts in Japan's attrition doctrineChapter
  4. Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability
    1:35:57A less specialized nine-gun alternative to the Tone classNotable Point
  5. Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability
    3:01:14Why Tone still carried a full forward gun batteryQ&A
  6. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    1:06:38Tone-class reconnaissance protected the carrier force's secrecyNotable Point
  7. Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!
    2:25:01Why Britain did not need a Tone-style hybrid cruiserQ&A
  8. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    39:27Which cruiser hulls offered the best carrier conversionsQ&A
  9. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    1:34:56Tōne and Chikuma fit ocean raider huntingNotable Point
  10. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    3:56:24Japanese light cruisers evolved from scouts into destroyer leadersChapter
  11. Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"
    2:09:03Japanese cruisers sought a qualitative answer to numerical inferiorityChapter
  12. All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)
    1:07:17Tone: scouting capacity versus all-round cruiser fireNotable Point
  13. Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament
    1:48:06Tone: guns forward, scouts aftChapter
  14. Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament
    1:49:59Was concentrating Tone's magazines a particular risk?Q&A
  15. Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament
    1:51:28Could Tone raise both B and D turrets?Q&A
  16. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)
    30:24Tone class and reconnaissance-cruiser compromiseChapter
  17. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    1:51:55Did Tone's pyramid turret layout save armour?Q&A
  18. 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat
    25:26Why the Tone-class hybrid is a compromiseQ&A
  19. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    51:30Tone class aviation park and unreplaceable scoutsNotable Point
  20. Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?
    2:03:08Tone's all-guns-forward and all-aircraft-aft compromiseChapter
  21. Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?
    2:19:31Force reconnaissance was not the same as post-battle mopping upQ&A
  22. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:15:25Why the Tone class put every main gun forwardQ&A
  23. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:04:27Why Japanese surface raiders offered little value by 1944Q&A