Japanese submarine I-183
Kaidai type, KD7-class submarine
Service
- as Submarine No. 161? — 30 August 19441,823 days of the war
- Name
- I-183
- Builder
- Kawasaki Dockyard Company, Kobe, Japan
- Laid down
- 26 December 1941
- Launched
- 21 January 1943
- Struck
- 30 August 1944
- Fate
- Sunk, 29 April 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,833 long tons (1,862 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,602 long tons (2,644 t)
- Length
- 105.5 m (346.1 ft)
- Beam
- 8.25 m (27.1 ft)
- Draught
- 4.6 m (15.1 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 8,000 nmi (14,816 km)
- Complement
- 86
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
I-183 was a Kaidai type, KD7-class submarine in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Kawasaki Dockyard Company, Kobe, Japan laid her keel on 26 December 1941. She was launched on 21 January 1943.
The boat displaced 1,833 long tons surfaced and 2,602 long tons submerged. She measured 105.5 m (346 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 86.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 8,000 bhp.
She was in commission for 1,823 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 30 August 1944.
She was sunk on 29 April 1944, at 32°07′N 133°03′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- Power
- 8000 bhp (diesel engines)
- 1800 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (all bow)
- 1 × 120 mm deck gun
- 1 × twin 25 mm Type 96 AA gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese submarine I-183 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — N. Polmar, D. Carpenter. Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1904—1945. — Conway Maritime Press, 1986 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons