HMAS Success - OR 304



Builder: Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Laid down: 9 August 1980
Launched: 3 March 1984
Commissioned: 23 April 1986
Homeport: Fleet Base East, Sydney
Motto: "Strive to Win"
Nickname(s): Battle Tanker[1]
Honours and
awards:
Status: Active as of 2016
Badge: Ship's badge
General characteristics
Class and type: Durance-class replenishment oiler
Displacement: 18,221 tonnes (full load)
Length: 157.2 m (516 ft)
Beam: 21.2 m (70 ft)
Draught: 8.6 m (28 ft)
Propulsion: 2 × SEMT-Pielstick 16 PC2.5 V 400 diesel engines, driving two shafts
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range: 8,616 nmi (15,957 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried:
1 × LCVP
Capacity:
  • 8,707 tonnes diesel
  • 975 tonnes aviation fuel
  • 250 tonnes munitions
  • 116 tonnes water
  • 95 tonnes naval stores
  • 57 tonnes consumables
Complement: 25 officer, 212 sailors
Sensors and
processing systems:
2 × Kelvin Hughes Type 100G radars
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × helicopter (Sea King, Seahawk, or Squirrel)
Aviation facilities: Aft hangar and helipad for single helicopter

No comments: