HMS ''Success'' was an 28-gun

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wooden sailing ship notable for exploring

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and the Swan River in 1827 as well as being one of the first ships to arrive at the fledgling

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two years later, at which time she ran aground off

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History

Her keel was laid at

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in August 1823 and she was launched on 31 August 1825. She was and , and was a sixth-rate ship with 28 guns, including twenty 32-pounders. She was sent by the

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on a mission to New South Wales and Melville Island. She made an expedition to the Swan River in 1827, arriving there in early March. Captain James Stirling was in command. There is a record of the expedition, '' An account of the expedition of H.M.S. 'Success', Captain James Stirling, RN., from Sydney, to the Swan River, in 1827'' by Augustus Gilbert. Another account ''The visit of Charles Fraser (the colonial botanist of New South Wales) : to the Swan River in 1827, with his opinion on the suitableness of the district for a settlement'' was published in 1832. On 3 December 1829 ''Success'' ran aground on Shag Rock,

. In April ''Success'' was taken to Careening Bay on Garden Island for heaving down to and repaired. In February 1833 ''Success'' was fitted out as a

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and from 1833 to 1849 was engaged in harbour service in

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. She was broken up in 1849.

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, the suburb of Success and a number of other features in Western Australia are named after the ship.

References

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