Keywords: HMAS Success USS Essex May2001.jpg The Royal Australian Navy RAN supply ship HMAS Success AOR 304 steams alongside the U S Navy assault ship USS Essex LHD-2 for an underway replenishment on 2 May 2001 The Success transferred more than 1 249 186 l 330 000 US gal of fuels to the Essex The Essex was en route to Australia to participate in Exercise Tandem Thrust 2001 a combined United States and Australian military training exercise U S Pacific Command photo archive http //www pacom mil/imagery/archive/0105photos/010504tand-h jpg 2001-05-02 U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Recruit Stephanie M Bergman PD-USGov 2001 photographs May 2001 in Australia HMAS Success OR 304 Aboard USS Essex LHD-2 Tandem Thrust 2001 May 2001 in the United States |