Sixteen ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Success'', whilst another was planned:
* was a 34-gun ship, previously the French ship ''Jules''. She was captured in 1650, renamed HMS ''Old Success'' in 1660 and sold in 1662.
*
HMS ''Success'' (1655) was a 24-gun ship launched in 1655 as . She was renamed HMS ''Success'' in 1660 and was wrecked in 1680.
* was a 6-gun
fireship purchased in 1672 that foundered in 1673.
* was a store hulk purchased in 1692 and sunk as a
breakwater
Breakwater may refer to:
* Breakwater (structure), a structure for protecting a beach or harbour
Places
* Breakwater, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
* Breakwater Island
Breakwater Island () is a small island in the Palme ...
in 1707.
* was a 10-gun
sloop
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purchased in 1709 that the French captured in 1710 off Lisbon.
* was a 24-gun storeship launched in 1709, hulked in 1730, and sold in 1748.
* was a 20-gun
sixth rate launched in 1712, converted to a
fireship in 1739, and sold in 1743.
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1736; her fate is unknown.
* was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and broken up in 1779.
* was a 14-gun
ketch launched in 1754. Her fate is unknown.
* was a 32-gun
fifth rate launched in 1781 that the French captured in 1801 but that the British recaptured the same year. She became a
convict ship in 1814 and was broken up in 1820.
* was a 3-gun
gunvessel, previously in use as a
barge. She was purchased in 1797 and sold in 1801 for £100.
[Great Britain: Commissioners of Naval enquiry (1803) ''The First (second-twelfth) Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, Appointed by Act 43 Geo. III. (Observations, by Way of Supplement, to the First Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, on the Memorial of the Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, in Answer to that Report.)'', p.116.]
* was a 28 gun sixth rate launched in 1825, and captained by
James Stirling in his journey to Western Australia. She was used for harbour service from 1832 and was broken up 1849.
* HMS ''Success'' was to have been a wood screw sloop. She was ordered but not laid down and was cancelled in 1863.
* was a launched in 1901 and wrecked in 1914.
*
HMS ''Success'' was an launched in 1918. She was transferred to the
Royal Australian Navy in 1919 and was sold in 1937.
* was an
S-class destroyer launched in 1943. She was transferred to the
Royal Norwegian Navy later that year and renamed . She was broken up in 1959.
See also
* , two ships of the
Royal Australian Navy.
Citations and references
Citations
References
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