Sister ship Artem
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History | |
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Russian Empire | |
Name | Samson |
Builder | Metal Works, Saint Petersburg |
Fate | Joined the Bolsheviks, November 1917 |
Soviet Union | |
Acquired | November 1917 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1953 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Orfey-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,260 long tons (1,280 t) |
Length | 98.0 m (321 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 9.3 m (30 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 3 m (9 ft 10 in) |
Installed power | 30,000 shp (22,000 kW) |
Propulsion |
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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 |
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Samson (Russian: 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 joined the Bolshevik Red Fleet after the October Revolution of 1918. She was active during the Russian Civil War, taking part in several engagements against British ships during the British campaign in the Baltic. The destroyer was renamed Stalin (Russian: Сталин) in 1922. She was assigned to the Pacific Fleet when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) and saw little to no combat. The ship was scrapped in 1953.