German submarine U-583
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Career | |
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Name: | U-583 |
Ordered: | 8 January 1940 |
Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
Yard number: | 559 |
Laid down: | 1 October 1940 |
Launched: | 26 June 1941 |
Commissioned: | 14 August 1941 |
Fate: | Sunk after a collision in the Baltic Sea, November 1941 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Type VIIC submarine |
Displacement: |
769 tonnes (757 long tons) surfaced 871 t (857 long tons) submerged |
Length: |
67.1 m (220 ft 2 in) o/a 50.5 m (165 ft 8 in) pressure hull |
Beam: |
6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) o/a 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) pressure hull |
Draft: | 4.74 m (15 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion: |
2 × supercharged Germaniawerft 6-cylinder 4-stroke F46 diesel engines, totalling 2,800–3,200 bhp (2,100–2,400 kW). Max rpm: 470-490 2 × electric motors, totalling 750 shp (560 kW) and max rpm: 296. |
Speed: |
17.7 knots (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) surfaced 7.6 knots (14.1 km/h; 8.7 mph) submerged |
Range: |
15,170 km (8,190 nmi) at 10 kn (19 km/h) surfaced 150 km (81 nmi) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h) submerged |
Test depth: |
230 m (750 ft) Crush depth: 250–295 m (820–968 ft) |
Complement: | 44–52 officers and ratings |
Armament: |
5 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern) 14 × G7e torpedoes or 26 TMA mines 1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun (220 rounds) Various AA guns |
Service record[1] | |
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Part of: |
5th U-boat Flotilla (15 August–15 November 1941) |
Commanders: |
Kptlt. Heinrich Ratsch (14 August–15 November 1941) |
Operations: | None |
Victories: | None |
German submarine U-583 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
She carried out no patrols and sank no ships.
She was sunk after a collision with another U-boat in the Baltic Sea, in November 1941.
Service history
The submarine was laid down on 1 October 1940 at Blohm & Voss, Hamburg as 'werk' 559, launched on 26 June 1941 and commissioned on 14 August under the command of Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Ratsche.
She served with the 5th U-boat Flotilla from 15 August 1941.
Fate
U-580 was sunk after a collision with U-153 in the Baltic Sea, on 15 November 1941.
Forty-five men died; there were no survivors.
References
Notes
- ↑ "The Type VIIC boat U-583 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
External links
- Uboat.net: U-583
- U-583 at Ubootwaffe
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