page_title: HMAS Success (OR 304)
section_title: Fate
hierarchical_section_title: HMAS Success (OR 304) / Fate
caption_attribution_description: English: The former HMAS Success on Sydney Harbour after having her hull number painted over
context_page_description: HMAS Success (OR 304) 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 1980s, she is the only ship of the class to be constructed outside France, and the only one to not originally serve in the Marine Nationale. The ship was part of the Australian contribution to the 1991 Gulf War, and was deployed to East Timor in response to incidents in 1999 and 2006. The ship was fitted with a double hull during the first half of 2011, to meet International Maritime Organization standards.
  Success was decommissioned at Fleet Base East on 29 June 2019, after 33 years of service, and towed to Port Pirie for scrapping in August 2019.
context_section_description: The Australian Department of Defence predicted in 2006 that Success would reach the end of her useful operational lifespan sometime between 2015 and 2017. Following her double-hull refit, this was extended to the early 2020s, with the decision on the replacement vessel (acquisition project SEA 1654 Phase 3) to be made between 2016 and 2018, and the new ship in service by 2023. The 2013 Defence White Paper stated that the replacement of Success and HMAS Sirius would be brought forward. As well as building replacement vessels (either in Australia, overseas, or a combination), leasing existing vessels was also to be considered.
  In June 2014, the Minister for Defence announced that two companies had been invited to a restricted tender competition. Navantia from Spain offered the Cantabria design, while Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering from Korea proposed a downsized Aegir variant of the Tide-class tanker. The 20,000+ tonne ships will be built overseas, as they will be too large to build in Australian shipyards. In March 2016, the Navantia design was selected.
  Success completed her final voyage into Sydney Harbour on 16 June 2019. She was decommissioned at Fleet Base East on 29 June 2019. Her scheduled replacement will be HMAS Supply, a Supply-class replenishment oiler. This ship is scheduled to enter service in 2020.
  Success arrived in Port Pirie in early August 2019. The ship will be stripped to the hull by local engineering firm McMahon Services and the hull then moved to Whyalla, to a slipway that was once part of the former shipyards, where it will be broken up for scrap.
caption: Success in Sydney after being decommissioned and having her hull number painted over
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