Photo Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser / Raider) - Michel (bismarck-class.dk)
Built 1939
Tonnage 10,900
Range: 34,000 nautical miles (63,000 km) at 10 knots (
Complement 395 (incl. 18 officers), 5 prize-officers
Airplanes: 2
Michel (HSK-9) was an auxiliary cruiser of the German Navy that operated as a merchant raider during World War II. Built by Danziger Werft in Danzig 1938/39 as the freighter Bielsko for the Gdynia-America-Line (GAL), she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine at the outbreak of World War II and converted into the hospital ship Bonn and in summer 1941 into auxiliary cruiser Michel, commissioned on 7 September1941. Known to the KM as Schiff 28, her Royal Navy designation was Raider H.
After refit, Michel sailed from
On her return to
During her stay in the south Atlantic Michel captured and sank 11 allied ships, totaling 104,607 DWT.
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