HMS Success (1781)

Success destroys Santa Catalina, 16 March 1782
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Success
Ordered22 February 1779
BuilderJohn Sutton, Liverpool
Laid down8 May 1779
Launched10 April 1781
Commissioned1781
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp: "9 June 1799"[1]
FateCaptured by the French Navy on 10 February 1801
France
NameSuccès
Acquired10 February 1801 by capture
FateRe-captured by the Royal Navy on 2 September 1801
United Kingdom
NameHMS Success
Acquired2 September 1801 by capture
FateBroken up, 1820
General characteristics
Class and type32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen682494 (bm)
Length
  • 126 ft (38.4 m) (overall)
  • 103 ft 8 in (31.6 m) (keel)
Beam35 ft 1+12 in (10.7 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 2 in (3.71 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement220
Armament
  • UD: 26 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Success was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy launched in 1781, which served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The French captured her in the Mediterranean on 13 February 1801, but she was recaptured by the British on 2 September. She continued to serve in the Mediterranean until 1811, and in North America until hulked in 1814, then serving as a prison ship and powder hulk, before being broken up in 1820.

  1. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 246.