SMS V183

SMS V183

History
Germany
Name	V183 until 22 February 1918 T183 from 22 February 1918
Builder	AG Vulcan, Stettin
Launched	23 December 1909
Completed	12 May 1910
Fate	Sold for scrap 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	S138-class torpedo boat
Displacement	650 t (640 long tons) design
Length	73.9 m (242 ft 5 in) o/a
Beam	7.9 m (25 ft 11 in)
Draught	3.07 m (10 ft 1 in)
Installed power	18,000 PS (18,000 shp; 13,000 kW)
Propulsion	3 × boilers 2 × steam turbines
Speed	32 kn (37 mph; 59 km/h)
Complement	84
Armament	2× 8.8 cm guns 4× 50 cm torpedo tubes

SMS V183^[a][b] was a S-138-class large torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. She was built by the AG Vulcan shipyard at Stettin in 1909–1910, launching on 12 December 1909 and completing on 12 May 1910.

V183 took part in the First World War, mainly operating in the Baltic Sea, taking part in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915 and Operation Albion, the German invasion and occupation of the West Estonian Archipelago in 1917. She was renamed T183 in February 1918, and by the end of the war was operating as an escort ship.

Following the end of the First World War, T183 was surrendered as a reparation under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, and was sold for scrap in 1921.

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