Orfey-class destroyer

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Class overview
Imperial Russian destroyer Letun.
Operators:	Russian Navy Soviet Navy Estonian Navy Peruvian Navy
Preceded by:	Novik
Succeeded by:	Izijaslav-class destroyer
In commission:	1914–1956
Planned:	23
Completed:	16
Lost:	9
Retired:	7
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type:	Orfey-class destroyers
Displacement:	1,260 tons (standard) 1,440 tons (full load)
Length:	98 m
Beam:	9.3 m
Draught:	3 m
Propulsion:	2 shaft AEG turbines 4 Vulkan type boilers 30,500 hp
Speed:	32 knots
Complement:	150
Armament:	4 × 4-inch (102 mm) guns 1 x 40 mm AA gun 2 x machine guns 9 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes (3 x 3) 50 mines

The Orfey-class destroyers were built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. They were modified versions of the Novik and the Derzky-class destroyers. These ships were larger, had triple torpedo tubes and an extra 4-inch (102 mm) gun. Fourteen ships were completed in 1914 - 1917 and fought in World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The survivors fought in World War II.

Ships

Built at the Putilov yard, St Petersburg

Ship	Launched	Fate
Kapitan Belli renamed Karl Liebknecht	29 Oct 1915	Transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet. Broken up 1950s
Kapitan Izylmetev renamed Lenin	4 Nov 1914	Scuttled 24 June 1941 at Liepāja, Latvia while under repair
Kapitan Kern renamed Kuibishev	27 Aug 1915	Transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet. Broken up 1950s
Kapitan Kanon renamed Zotov	23 Oct 1915	Broken up incomplete 1923
Kapitan Kroun	5 Aug 1916	Broken up incomplete 1923
Kapitan I ranga Miklucha Maklai renamed Spartak (1917) renamed Vambola renamed Almirante Villar	27 Aug 1915	Captured by the British in 1919, given to the Estonian Navy and sold by the Estonians to Peru in 1933. Scrapped in 1954 ref
Lieutenant Dubasov	9 Sep 1916	Broken up incomplete 1923
Lieutenant Ilin renamed Voikov	28 Nov 1914	transferred to the Soviet Pacific Fleet. Broken up 1950s

Built at Metal Works, St Petersburg (Petrograd)

Ship	Launched	Fate
Orfei	5 Jun 1916	Broken up 1929, after sustaining irreparable mine damage in 1917
Azard renamed Artem	5 Jun 1916	Sank British submarine L55 during the Russian Civil War, sunk 28 August 1941 by mines
Desna renamed Engels	4 Nov 1915	Sunk 25 Aug 1941 by mines
Grom	5 Jun 1915	Sunk 14 Oct 1917, during the Battle of Moon Sound
Letun	4 Nov 1915	Broken up 1925, after sustaining irreparable mine damage in 1916, Mine was laid by SM UC-27
Pobiditel renamed Volodarski	5 Nov 1914	Sunk 28 August 1941
Samson renamed Stalin	5 Jun 1915	transferred to the Soviet Pacific fleet via the Arctic in 1936, Broken up 1953
Zabiyaka renamed Uritski	5 Nov 1914	transferred to the Northern Fleet, Sunk as a target during nuclear test in 1953

Built by Russo Baltic Yard, Reval

Ship	Launched	Fate
Gavril	5 Jan 1915	Helped sink British submarine L55 and three British motor boats. Sunk by mines 21 October 1919 while attempting to defect
Konstantin	12 Jun 1915	Sunk by mines 21 October 1919 while attempting to defect
Vladimir renamed Svoboda	18 Aug 1915	Sunk by mines 21 October 1919 while attempting to defect
Mikhail	1916	towed to Petrograd but broken up incomplete 1923
Mechislav	1916	towed to Petrograd but broken up incomplete 1923
Sokol	1917	towed to Petrograd but broken up incomplete 1923

Lenin
Pobeditel'
Stalin ex Samson
Uruitskiy

References

Conway's All the world's Fighting Ships 1906-1922
M.J Whitley, Destroyers of World War 2, 1988 Cassell Publishing ISBN 1-85409-521-8

v t e Russian naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Gangut Imperatritsa Mariya Imperator Nikolai I^S

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Ekaterina II Imperator Aleksandr II Petropavlovsk Tri Sviatitelia^S Rostislav^S Tsesarevich^S Borodino Peresvet Potemkin^S Evstafi Andrei Pervozvanny

Battlecruisers	Borodino^X

Armored cruisers	Rossia^S Gromoboi^S Bayan Rurik^S

Light cruisers	Svetlana^C Admiral Nakhimov^C

Protected cruisers	Pallada Askold^S Bogatyr Izumrud

Destroyers	Novik^S Derzky Orfey Izyaslav Fidonisy

Submarines	Delfin^S Som Kasatka Minoga^S Akula^S Karp Kaiman Krab^S Morzh Bars Narval

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

v t e Soviet naval ship classes of World War II

Battleships	Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya Arkhangelsk^S^RN Sovetsky Soyuz

Battlecruisers	Kronshtadt

Cruisers	Komintern^S Svetlana Admiral Nakhimov Murmansk^S^USN Tallin (Petropavlovsk)^S Kirov Chapayev

Destroyers	Yakov Sverdlov^S Frunze^S Orfey Izyaslav Fidonisy Leningrad Tashkent Type 7 Type 7U Opytny Ognevoy Town^RN Mărăşti Regele Ferdinand

Guard ships	MO Uragan Yastreb

Motor torpedo boats	Sh-4 G-5 D3

Submarines	D L Shch P S M K A (AG) Kalev Ronis V-1 U

S Single ship of class RN loan from Royal Navy USN loan from United States Navy

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Orfey-class destroyer

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References