Type: IX-D2
Built by: AG Weser (Bremen)
Launched: 3 March 1942
Commissioned: 30 June 1942
Feldpost Nr.: M05593
Sunk: 16 May 1943
Sunk by: USS MacKENZIE
Location sunk: NE of Madeira
Position sunk: 33º 55’N x 20º 35’W (all hands, 61 men, lost)

The only Skipper of U-182 was Nicolai Clausen and he was lost with the boat. He had commanded U-142, U-37 and also U-129 before coming to U-182 on 20 June 1942.

U-182 was assigned to the 12th U-bootflottille based up the river Gironde in Bordeaux. After working-up trials in the Baltic, U-182 undertook her first combat patrol off Freetown in January 1943, then southeast of Capetown & Madagascar from February through April of 1943. She was homeward bound when sunk.

SHIPS SUNK BY U-182
15.01.43	OCEAN COURAGE	Brit stmr	7,173 GRT
17.02.43	LLANASHE	Brit stmr	4,836 GRT
10.3.43	RICHARD D. SPAIGHT	Amer stmr	7,177 GRT
A new ship, built in 1942 and she mounted one 5 inch, one 3 inch deck gun as well as eight 20mm automatic AA guns. She was owned by WSA and operated by American-West African Line, and commanded by Master Russell Quynn. She was making 12 knots and drew 16 ½ feet with her cargo of 3,000 tons of steel and concrete when she was attacked. The ship was running alone in the Mozambique Channel from Massau, Eritrea for Durban, SA when U-182 fired her first torpedo which hit starboard at the #1 hold. Less than a minute later, the 2nd torpedo hit between #2 and #3 hold. There was immediate and extensive damage; the bow was pushed completely underwater while the stern and prop were high in the air. The crew was unable to secure the engines, so the propeller continued turning even after the crew abandoned. The eight officers, 35 men and 24 Armed Guards left the ship in four boats, but the still-turning propeller pulled one lifeboat toward it. They got out in time, but the boat was destroyed by the propeller. After the men safely abandoned the ship and withdrew some distance, U-182 surfaced about 2,000 yards away and fired thirty-five rounds from the 105mm deck gun at the ship, scoring about twenty-five hits. It took more than two hours for the ship to sink. U-182 came to the lifeboats and questioned the survivors, then gave them food, water and medical supplies before drawing off. Two of the boats arrived at Richards Bay, SA in a little less than three days. Another boat reached Cape St. Lucia and the fourth boat made it to Cuanalonbi Beach, SA after five days. Only one man, a messman, was lost. He was sitting on the #1 hatch when the torpedo struck and he was blown overboard. Another man, also on this hatch lying on a mattress, survived and was rescued by one of the lifeboats.
05.04.43	ALOE	Brit stmr	5,047 GRT
01.05.43	ADELFOTIS	Grk stmr	5,838 GRT