German submarine U-183

U-Boat Infobox
type=IXC/40
fieldpost number=
yard number=
order date=
keel=May 28, 1941
commission=April 1, 1942
yard=AG Weser, Bremen
U-Boat Patrol
startdate=Start Date
enddate=End Date
assigned unit=Assigned Unit
U-Boat Patrol
startdate=April 1, 1942
enddate=Sep 30, 1942
assigned unit=4th Flotilla (training)U-Boat Patrol
startdate=Oct 1, 1942
enddate=Sep 30, 1944
assigned unit=2nd Flotilla (front boat)U-Boat Patrol
startdate=Oct 1, 1944
enddate=Apr 23, 1945
assigned unit=33rd Flotilla (training)U-Boat Patrol
startdate=She did
enddate=a total of
assigned unit=six war patrolsU_Boat Command
startdate=Apr, 1942
enddate=Nov, 1943
name=Korvkpt. Heinrich Schäfer
U_Boat Command
startdate=Nov, 1943
enddate=Apr, 1945
name=Kptlt. Fritz Schneewind
U_Boat Sink
type=Type of Ship Sunk
total=Number of Ships Sunk
tonnage=Gross Registered Tonnage
U_Boat Sink
type=Commercial Vessels
total=4
tonnage=19260
U_Boat Sink
type=Military Vessels
total=None
tonnage=0

Unterseeboot 183 (usually abbreviated to U-183) was a German submarine built during World War II. She was one of the so called "Monsun boats" or Monsun Gruppe, which operated in the Indian Ocean from Japanese bases in occupied Indonesia, mostly Penang. She did six war patrols, and was sunk days before the war's end, by American submarine USS "Besugo", at the Java Sea. Only one crew member survived.

She was commissioned in April 1942, one of the first IXC/40 boats, somewhat larger and faster than the IXC type.

Monsun boats

"U-183" was in the first wave of the Monsun boats, departing from France in July 1943, arriving at Penang on October 27. She operated in the zone for almost two years before she was sunk just as the war was going to end, on April 23 1945.

References

* [http://ubootwaffe.net/crews/crews.cgi?uquery=1;boatnum=183 U-183 crew data]
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u183.htm U-boat.net webpage for "U-183"]
* [http://uboat.net/ops/monsun3.htm U-boat net about Monsun boats]

ee also

* List of U-boats