Orfey-class destroyer

  • 4 oil-fired steam boiler Vulcan
  • 2 set Curtis - AEG- Vulcan turbines
  • 31,500 PSW on 2 shafts
  • 400 tonnes of fuel oil
  • 4 × 102 -mm guns L/60
  • 1 × 40 -mm Flak L/39
  • 2 × 7.62 -mm machine guns
  • 9 × torpedo tubes (3 × 3) Ø 457 mm
  • 80 mines

The Orfei class (Russian Орфей for Orpheus ) was a class Russian destroyer of the Baltic Fleet of Tsarist Russia, which is based on the design of the prototype boat Nowik, in the wake of the June 1912 granted to the Baltic little shipbuilding program 1912 Baltic shipyards were ordered and built there.

Design

Opposite the Nowik the draft had been reduced in size. The plans were created with the help of the German shipyard Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for the Putilov shipyard, which forwarded them to the St. Ust- Izhora yard of metal works Petersburg. Differences at the same time built - Leitenant Ilyin class of Putilov yard pass in the arrangement and shape of the fan, the chimney approaches and the bridge form.

Within the class had Grom and Pobeditel per a 63 -mm Flak L/38 and Orfei and Sabijaka ever a 76.2 -mm Flak L/30 instead of the 40 -mm gun of the other boats.

Naming

The boats were given the names of famous Russian sailing ships which had participated gloriously in different naval battles.

Boats and fates

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