It recommissioned into the RAN as HMAS Success at Devonport on 27 January 1920 under the command of Lieutenant O R Wace RN. It sailed for Australia on 20 February with Swordsman, Tasmania and Tattoo, and arrived in Sydney on 29 April via Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Mumbai, Colombo, Singapore, Sourabaya and Thursday Island. However, Success’s second commission was only marginally longer than its first as postwar cuts to defence spending saw a number of RAN vessels decommissioned. Success was one of those affected and it decommissioned at Sydney on 6 October 1921 and was placed into reserve.
Success recommissioned on 1 December 1925. It subsequently served in waters around Australia, with the exception of Western Australia, making a brief visit to Port Moresby in May 1926.
It decommissioned again on 21 May 1930 and was once more placed into reserve. It was eventually sold for breaking up on 4 June 1937.