HMS Success (1901)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Success |
| Laid down: | 18 September 1899 |
| Launched: | 21 March 1901 |
| Completed: | May 1902 |
| Commissioned: | 9 June 1902 |
| Fate: | Wrecked on 27 December 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 380 long tons (386 t) |
| Length: | 214.75 ft (65.46 m) |
| Beam: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 10 in (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
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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 Lee, ordered under the 1897–1898 programme, with the major difference being that the ship had three funnels rather than four.[4]
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).[4] Displacement was 380 long tons (390 t) light and 425 long tons (432 t) full load.[5] 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).[4][6] Armament was as standard for the "thirty-knotters", with a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt[lower-alpha 1] (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.[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 the HMS Dove, which had been docked for repairs after going aground.[9] She succeeded the latter ship in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla.[10]
References
- ↑ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 12cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
- ↑ "The Great War Diary" (PDF). Archived from the original (pdf) on 2006-10-25. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
- 1 2 Lyon 2001, p. 84.
- ↑ Lyon 2001, p. 25.
- 1 2 3 Lyon 2001, pp. 83–84.
- ↑ Chesneau and Kolesnick 1979, pp. 96.
- ↑ Brassey 1902, p. 275.
- ↑ Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.
- ↑ Friedman 2009, p. 40.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 10 June 1902. (36790), p. 12.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Thursday, 5 June 1902. (36786), p. 7.
- Brassey, T.A. (1902). The Naval Annual 1902. Portsmouth, UK: J. Griffin and Co.
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Lyon, David (2001). The First Destroyers. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-3648.
- Manning, T. D. (1961). The British Destroyer. London: Putnam & Co. Ltd.
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