HMS Success (1781)

Success destroys Santa Catalina, 16 March 1782
History
Great Britain
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"[1]
Fate	Captured by the French Navy on 10 February 1801
France
Name	Succès
Acquired	10 February 1801 by capture
Fate	Re-captured by the Royal Navy on 2 September 1801
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Success
Acquired	2 September 1801 by capture
Fate	Broken up, 1820
General characteristics
Class and type	32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	6824⁄94 (bm)
Length	126 ft (38.4 m) (overall) 103 ft 8 in (31.6 m) (keel)
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
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.