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.
Success destroys Santa Catalina, 16 March 1782
HMS SUCCESS LOG, 11 APR TO 15 APR 1795 punishments, ordered by captain Hugh Pigot
Battle of the Malta Convoy, HMS Success attacks Généreux on 18 February 1800
Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Morice Pole, 1st Baronet GCB was a Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator and politician. As a junior officer he saw action at the siege of Pondicherry in India during the American Revolutionary War. After taking command of the fifth-rate HMS Success he captured and then destroyed the Spanish frigate Santa Catalina in the Strait of Gibraltar in the action of 16 March 1782 later in that War.
Charles Morice Pole (John Francis Rigaud, 1781)
The action of 16 March 1782 at which Pole captured and then destroyed the Spanish frigate Santa Catalina in the Strait of Gibraltar
Pole, later in his career
Aldenham Abbey, Pole's house in Hertfordshire