Orfey class destroyer

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 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 Leibnecht	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)	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 1917
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, Broken up 1953

Ship	Launched	Fate
Gavril	5 Jan 1915	Helped sink British submarine L55. Sunk by mines 21 October 1919
Konstantin	12 Jun 1915	Sunk by mines 21 October 1919
Vladimir renamed Svoboda	18 Aug 1915	Sunk by mines 21 October 1919
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

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

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