Russian destroyer Samson

History
Russian Empire
Name	Samson
Builder	Metal Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down	30 July 1915
Launched	23 May 1916
Completed	21 November 1916
Fate	Joined the Bolsheviks, October 1917
Soviet Union
Acquired	October 1917
Renamed	Stalin, 31 December 1922 ; Samson, 17 December 1946; PKZ-37, 16 June 1951; PKZ-52, 26 November 1953;
Reclassified	As training ship, 17 December 1946; As barracks ship, 1951;
Stricken	30 May 1956
Fate	Scrapped, 28 August 1953
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	9.34 m (30 ft 8 in)
Draught	2.93 m (9 ft 7 in)
Installed power	4 Normand boilers; 32,000 PS (24,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam turbines
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 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; 3 × triple 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes; 80 mines;

Samson (Самсон) was one of eight Orfey-class destroyers built for the Russian Imperial Navy during World War I. Completed in 1916, she served with the Baltic Fleet and played a minor role in the Battle of Kassar Wiek when the Germans invaded the West Estonian Archipelago in October 1917 (Operation Albion). Her crew joined the Bolshevik Red Fleet during the October Revolution of 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.

The destroyer was renamed Stalin (Сталин) in 1922. She was transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1936. The ship played a minor role in the Battle of Lake Khasan in 1938. Stalin briefly served as a training ship in 1940 before being assigned to a submarine unit in 1941. The ship was under repair from late 1941 to early 1943 and was rearmed at the end of the year. She was refitted again in 1945 and resumed her earlier mission as a training ship as World War II was ending in August. Stalin resumed her previous name in 1946 as she was disarmed and converted into a stationary training ship. The ship was converted into a barracks ship in 1951 and renamed PKZ-37. She was renamed PKZ-52 two years later. The ship was scrapped in 1956.