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HMAS SUCCESS

Royal Australian Navy

MMSI: 503119000

Type Support Ship,

Role Combat Logistics

Pennant OR 304, Home Port Fleet Base East

Builder Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, NSW

Laid Down 9 August 1980, Launched 3 March 1984, Commissioned 23 April 1986

Displacement 18,000 tonnes (full load), Length 157.2 metres, Beam 21.2 metres, Draught 8.6 metres

Performance L: Speed 20 knots, Range 8600 nautical miles

Crew 220

Propulsion Machinery 2 x SEMT-Pielstick 16 diesels

Guns

1 x Vulcan Phalanx Mk 15 CIWS (for selected deployments)

7 x 12.7 mm machine guns

Radars 2 x Kelvin Hughes Type 100G

Helicopters

1 x AS 350B Squirrel or

1 x Seahawk

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