HMS Success

HMS Success was ordered on 30 March 1899 from William Doxford & Sons as part of the British Admiralty's 1899–1900 shipbuilding programme, one of twelve "thirty-knotter" destroyers ordered from various shipyards under this programme. Success closely resembled Doxford's , ordered under the 1897–1898 programme, with the major difference being that the ship had three funnels rather than four. Success was 215 ft long overall and 210 ft between perpendiculars, with a beam of 21 ft and a draught of 8 ft. Four Thornycroft boilers fed two triple-expansion engines rated at 6000 ihp which drove two propeller shafts, giving a speed of 30 kn. Armament was as standard for the "thirty-knotters", with a QF…