HMAS Success (OR 304)

HMAS Success in June 2018
History
Australia
Namesake	HMAS Success (H02)
Builder	Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company
Laid down	9 August 1980
Launched	3 March 1984
Commissioned	23 April 1986
Decommissioned	29 June 2019
Homeport	Fleet Base East, Sydney
Identification	MMSI number: 503119000 Callsign: VLNN
Motto	"Strive to Win"
Nickname(s)	Battle Tanker[1]
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Kuwait 1991 East Timor 1999
Fate	Sold for scrap
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General characteristics
Class and type	Durance-class replenishment oiler
Displacement	18,221 tonnes (full load)
Length	157.2 m (515 ft 9 in)
Beam	21.2 m (69 ft 7 in)
Draught	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 × SEMT-Pielstick 16 PC2.5 V 400 diesel engines, driving two shafts
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range	8,616 nmi (15,957 km; 9,915 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried	1 × LCVP
Capacity	8,707 tonnes diesel 975 tonnes aviation fuel 250 tonnes munitions 116 tonnes water 95 tonnes naval stores 57 tonnes consumables
Complement	25 officer, 212 sailors
Sensors and processing systems	2 × Kelvin Hughes Type 100G radars
Armament	7 × 12.7 mm machine guns 1 × Phalanx Mk 15 close-in weapon systems (fitted for but not with)
Aircraft carried	1 × helicopter (Sea King, Seahawk, Squirrel, or MRH90)
Aviation facilities	Aft hangar and helipad for single helicopter

HMAS Success (OR 304) was a Durance-class multi-product replenishment oiler that previously served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company in Sydney, Australia, during the 1980s, she is the only ship of the class to be constructed outside France, and the only one to not originally serve in the Marine Nationale (French Navy). The ship was part of the Australian contribution to the 1991 Gulf War, and was deployed to East Timor in response to incidents in 1999 and 2006. The ship was fitted with a double hull during the first half of 2011, to meet International Maritime Organization standards.

Success was decommissioned at Fleet Base East on 29 June 2019, after 33 years of service, and towed to Port Pirie for scrapping in August 2019.