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Unterseeboot 83 was a German Type Mittel U U-boat commissioned and deployed to operate off the coast of the British Isles and attack coastal shipping as part of the First Battle of the Atlantic.
In a six month career, the U-83 performed two combat patrols into the Atlantic Ocean during the First Battle of the Atlantic. In these patrols she sank five allied merchant ships for 6,286 tons. On 17 February 1917, she torpedoed the British Q-ship HMS Farnborough off the Irish coast, but was ambushed by Farnborough's hidden armaments when she approached too close and was sunk with 35 hands. Farnborough was commanded by the submarine hunter Gordon Campbell and had on board later Victoria Cross recipients Ronald Niel Stuart and William Williams.
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