HMS Success was a 20-gun Royal Navy ship launched in 1740 as the first government contract for the Blaydes Yard in Hull.

She was commissioned in October 1739 at a cost of £4800 and launched July 1740 under the command of Captain Bradwarden Thomas who took her over the Atlantic to New England.

There in October 1742 command passed to Captain Jack Wickham who sailed her to Lisbon in 1743.

Under command of Captain John Rous she was part in the Battle of Fort Beausejour off the New Brunswick coast in May 1755.

In August 1755 the ship attacked several French-owned fishing boats and destroyed harbour facilities at Codroy, Newfoundland.