HMS Success (1781)
Success destroys the Santa Catalina, 16 March 1782
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| Name: | HMS Success |
| Ordered: | 22 February 1779 |
| Builder: | John Sutton, Liverpool |
| Laid down: | 8 May 1779 |
| Launched: | 10 April 1781 |
| Commissioned: | 1781 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp: "9 June 1799" |
| Fate: | Captured by the French Navy on 10 February 1801 |
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 France
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| Name: | Succès |
| Acquired: | 10 February 1801 by capture |
| Fate: | Re-captured by the Royal Navy on 2 September 1801 |
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| Name: | HMS Success |
| Acquired: | 2 September 1801 by capture |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1820 |
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| Class and type: | 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 682 4⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 35 ft 1 1⁄2 in (10.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 2 in (3.71 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 220 |
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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.
The ship, based on a design by Sir John Williams,Surveyor of the Navy, was ordered by the Admiralty on 22 February 1779, and built at Liverpool by John Sutton, being laid down on 8 May 1779, and launched 10 April 1781.
Success was commissioned in March 1781 under the command of Captain Charles Morice Pole, to serve in the American Revolutionary War, where she made several captures. The first, on 12 August 1781, was in company with Daphne, when they took the Spanish merchant ship St. Sebastian. Then, on 2 October, Success, Daphne, and the cutter Cruizer, captured the French privateer Eclair. The following year, in the action of 16 March 1782, while escorting the storeship Vernon to Gibraltar, Success fought, captured, and burned the 34-gun Spanish frigate Santa Catalina off Cape Spartel. On 20 June 1782 she sailed with a convoy for Jamaica, and on 3 October 1782 Success and the cutter Pigmy captured the ship Vrouw Margaretha.Success was paid off in November 1783, following the end of the war.
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