Russian destroyer Letun

	Sister ship Artem
History
Russian Empire
Name	Letun
Builder	Metal Works, Saint Petersburg
Laid down	23 October 1914
Launched	22 October 1915
Commissioned	19 March 1916
Fate	Scrapped, 1927
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;

Letun (Russian: Летун) 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 during the war, but struck a naval mine in October that crippled her. The ship was under repair in Reval, Estonia, when the Soviets evacuated the city. Abandoned, Letun was broken up for scrap in 1927.

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