HMAS Success (OR 304)
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HMAS Success was a Durance-class multi-product replenishment oiler that previously served in the Royal Australian Navy. Built by Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company in Sydney, Australia, during the 1
HMAS Success in June 2018
Fuel lines being transferred from Success's port replenishment points to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, during a replenishment at sea in 2005. The cruiser USS Cowpens has just completed replenishment on the starboard side, and is pulling away.
Port quarter view of Success, showing the ship's helicopter hangar and an embarked Sea King helicopter
HMAS Success sailing alongside HMAS Tobruk during RIMPAC 08
The Supply class is a class of replenishment oilers of the Royal Australian Navy, a role that combines the missions of a tanker and stores supply ship. As such they are designated auxiliary oiler repl
HMAS Success (OR 304)
…her final voyage into Sydney Harbour on 16 June 2019. She was decommissioned at Fleet Base East on 29 June 2019. Her replacement is HMAS Supply, a Supply-class replenishment oiler. This ship was commissioned in 2021. Success arrived in Port Pirie in early August 2019. The ship was stripped to the hull by McMahon Services and the…
Stalwart in Cockburn Sound, December 2021
HMAS Supply and Stalwart are based on the Spanish oiler Cantabria shown here in March 2011.
INS Shivalik undergoing replenishment from Stalwart during a Malabar exercise.