Name HMS Success Completed May 1902 Class and type Destroyer Launched 21 March 1901 Draft 2.69 m | Laid down 18 September 1899 Commissioned 9 June 1902 Construction started 18 September 1899 Length 65 m | |
Fate Wrecked on 27 December 1914 | ||
HMS Success was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 21 March 1901. On 27 December 1914 she was wrecked off Fife Ness during heavy gales.
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Design and construction
HMS Success was ordered on 30 March 1899 from William Doxford & Sons as part of the British Admiralty's 1899–1900 shipbuilding programme, one of twelve "thirty-knotter" destroyers ordered from various shipyards under this programme. Success closely resembled Doxford's Lee, ordered under the 1897–1898 programme, with the major difference being that the ship had three funnels rather than four.
Success was 215 feet (65.53 m) long overall and 210 feet (64.01 m) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 21 feet (6.40 m) and a draught of 8 feet 10 inches (2.69 m). Displacement was 380 long tons (390 t) light and 425 long tons (432 t) full load. Four Thornycroft boilers fed two triple-expansion engines rated at 6,000 indicated horsepower (4,500 kW) which drove two propeller shafts, giving a speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). Armament was as standard for the "thirty-knotters", with a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt (3 in (76 mm) calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (also used as the ship's bridge), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes.
Success was laid down at Doxford's Sunderland shipyard as yard number 282 on 18 September 1899, launched on 21 March 1901 and completed in May 1902.
Service history
Success was commissioned at Portsmouth on 9 June 1902 by Commander Douglas Nicholson and the crew of the HMS Dove, which had been docked for repairs after going aground. She succeeded the latter ship in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla.