Russian destroyer Orfey

	Sister ship Artem
History
Russian Empire
Name	Orfey
Namesake	Orpheus
Builder	Metal Works, Petrograd
Laid down	23 October 1914
Launched	15 June 1915
Commissioned	4 May 1916
Soviet Union
Acquired	November 1917
Fate	Scrapped, 1931
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Orfey-class destroyer
Displacement	1,260 t (1,240 long tons)
Length	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam	9.3 m (30 ft 6 in)
Draught	2.98 m (9 ft 9 in)
Installed power	4 Normand boilers; 32,000 PS (24,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam turbines
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range	1,680 nmi (3,110 km; 1,930 mi) at 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Complement	150
Armament	4 × single 102 mm (4 in) guns; 2 × 7.62 mm (0.3 in) machine guns; 3 × triple 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes; 80 × naval mines;

Orfey (Russian: Орфей, lit. 'Orpheus') was the name ship of her class of eight destroyers built for the Imperial Russian Navy during World War I. Completed in 1916, she served with the Baltic Fleet and made seven raids into the Baltic Sea to attack German shipping or lay minefields. The ship ran aground in August; her repairs were completed several months later. Orfey was inactive for most of 1917, but struck a mine in November that crippled her. Her crew joined the Bolsheviks while she was being repaired in 1917. The ship was towed from Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, in April 1918 in what became known as the "Ice Cruise" as the harbor was still iced over. She was placed in reserve later that month and was briefly reactivated in 1921 even though the ship had not been repaired. Orfey was converted into a training ship in 1922 and was scrapped nine years later.