Paddlesteamer Success was built at Moama in 1877 and worked on the Murray and Darling Rivers carrying wool bales or supplies on her deck or loaded onto barges towed astern. Between 1915 and 1916 she ran as a passenger boat between Swan Hill and Mildura.

Success was the last paddle-steamer to carry wool on the Murray during floods in 1956 but her working life ended in 1957 when she was grounded at Ned's Corner on the Murray River 80 kilometres west of Mildura. She remained there, slowly deteriorating, until 1996 when she was donated to the Riverboat Historial and Preservation Society of Mildura which planned to restore her. The task proved difficult for the volunteer group and the hulk was offered to the Shire of Campaspe to enable restoration at the Port of Echuca.

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