Orfey-class destroyer

Class overview
Imperial Russian destroyer Letun.
Operators:	Russian Navy Soviet Navy Estonian Navy Peruvian Navy
Preceded by:	Novik
Succeeded by:	Izyaslav class
In commission:	1914–1956
Planned:	23
Completed:	16
Lost:	9
Retired:	7
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	1,260 tons (standard) 1,440 tons (full load)
Length:	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam:	9.3 m (30 ft 6 in)
Draught:	3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:	2 shaft AEG turbines 4 Vulkan type boilers 22,700 kW (30,500 hp)
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement:	150
Armament:	4 × 102 mm (4 in) guns 1 × 40 mm AA gun 2 × machine guns 9 × 457 mm (18 in) 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 earlier destroyer Novik and the Derzky class. These ships were larger, had triple torpedo tubes and an extra 102-millimetre (4 in) 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

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 Konon-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 1918, 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 together with sister ships Konstantin and Svoboda during an attempted sortie to support Red Army forces defending Petrograd against the advance of Yudenich's white forces. The accompanying Azard managed to manoeuvre out of the minefield but 485 men were lost.
Konstantin	12 Jun 1915	Sunk by mines 21 October 1919 in the same operation as Gavril.
Vladimir renamed Svoboda	18 Aug 1915	Sunk by mines 21 October 1919 in the same operation as Gavril.
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

Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.

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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 A (AG)

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

Soviet naval ship classes of World War II

Battleships	Gangut Revenge^UK Sovetsky Soyuz^X

Battlecruisers	Kronshtadt^X

Cruisers	Bogatyr Svetlana Admiral Nakhimov Omaha^US Admiral Hipper^X Kirov Chapayev^X

Destroyers	Novik Derzky Orfey Izyaslav Fidonisy Leningrad Tashkent Gnevny Soobrazitelnyy Opytny Ognevoy Town^UK Mărăşti^R Regele Ferdinand^R

Guard ships	MO Uragan Yastreb

Motor torpedo boats	Sh-4 G-5 D3

Submarines	D L Shch P S M K A (AG) Kalev^E Ronis^L Delfinul^R Rechinul^R Marsuinul^R CB^R S^UK U^UK

UK loan from United Kingdom US loan from United States R surrendered by Romania in 1944 E formerly Estonian L formerly Latvian X Cancelled or completed after war

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