HMS Success (1901)
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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.[1]
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,[2] one of twelve "thirty-knotter" destroyers ordered from various shipyards under this programme.[3] Success closely resembled Doxford's Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., ordered under the 1897–1898 programme, with the major difference being that the ship had three funnels rather than four.[4]
Success was Script error: No such module "convert". long overall and Script error: No such module "convert". between perpendiculars, with a beam of Script error: No such module "convert". and a draught of Script error: No such module "convert"..[4] Displacement was Script error: No such module "convert". light and Script error: No such module "convert". full load.[5] Four Thornycroft boilers fed two triple-expansion engines rated at Script error: No such module "convert". which drove two propeller shafts, giving a speed of Script error: No such module "convert"..[4][6] Armament was as standard for the "thirty-knotters", with a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt[lower-alpha 1] (Script error: No such module "convert". 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.[7][8]
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.[2]
Service history
Success was commissioned at Portsmouth on 9 June 1902 by Commander Douglas Nicholson and the crew of Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., which had been docked for repairs after going aground.[9] She succeeded the latter ship in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla,[10] and took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII.[11] Commander Hubert Brand was appointed in command on 20 December 1902,[12] but left after only three weeks in mid-January 1903 to take the command of HMS Arab, which succeeded the Success as senior officer′s ship in the Portsmouth flotilla.[13]
Notes
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- ↑ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 12cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
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Citations
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- ↑ a b Lyon 2001, p. 84.
- ↑ Lyon 2001, p. 25.
- ↑ a b c Lyon 2001, pp. 83–84.
- ↑ Chesneau and Kolesnick 1979, pp. 96.
- ↑ Brassey 1902, p. 275.
- ↑ Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.
- ↑ Friedman 2009, p. 40.
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