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RAIDER MICHEL 12 SHIPS SUNK - MICHEL SCHIFF 28

1)RAIDER MICHEL SCHIFF 28



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 (19 km/h)


Complement 395 (incl. 18 officers), 5 prize-officers


Airplanes: 2 Arado AR 196 A-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 Yokohama on 21 May 1943, this time under the command of KzS Günther Gumprich, who had previously commanded Thor on her second voyage. Cruising the west coast of Australia, and crossing the Pacific Ocean to the coast of South America, Michel encountered and sank 3 ships in a 5 month period, before returning to Japan.


On her return to Japan, just 50 miles (80 km) out from port, Michel was spotted by US submarine Tarpon, who attacked in one of the few instances of American submarines attacking a German vessel during WWII, hitting her with three torpedoes. Michel sank, with 290 of her crew, including her captain. The survivors, 116 in total, were able to reach Japan after a three day journey in open boats.


During her stay in the south Atlantic Michel captured and sank 11 allied ships, totaling 104,607 DWT.


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