After 33 years of service, Success (pennant number OR 304) was decommissioned in a ceremony held on 29 June at Sydney’s Garden Island, Fleet Base East.
Commissioned in 1986, the 157.2 m-long vessel steamed almost one million n miles, participated in 11 ‘Rim of the Pacific’ exercises, and earned battle honours for service during the 1991 Gulf War and in East Timor in 1999, according to a statement by the Department of Defence (DoD) in Canberra.
https://www.janes.com/article/89593/australian-navy-retires-replenishment-ship-frigate
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