Sister ship Artem
History
Russian Empire
Name	Orfey
Builder	Metal Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down	23 October 1914
Launched	22 October 1915
Commissioned	19 March 1916
Soviet Union
Acquired	November 1917
Fate	Scrapped, 1931
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Orfey-class destroyer
Displacement	1,260 long tons (1,280  t)
Length	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam	9.3 m (30 ft 6 in)
Draught	3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Installed power	4 Vulcan- Thornycroft boilers 30,000  shp (22,000  kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam turbines
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range	1,250  nmi (2,320 km; 1,440 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	167
Armament	4 × single 102 mm (4 in) guns 1 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA gun 3 × triple 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Orfey (Russian: Орфей) was the lead ship of her class of eight her class of eight destroyers built for the Russian Imperial Navy during World War I. Completed in 1916, she served with the Baltic Fleet, but suffered turbine damage in late 1917, and was laid up for the rest of the war. The ship was not repaired by the Soviets and was scrapped in 1931.

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