Michel(HSK-9) was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated as a merchant raider during World War II. Built by Danziger Werft in Danzig 1938/39 as the freighter Bielsko for the Polish Gdynia-America-Line (GAL), she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine at the outbreak of World War II and converted into the hospital ship Bonn. In the summer of 1941, she was converted into the auxiliary cruiser Michel, and was commissioned on 7 September 1941. Known as Schiff 28, her Royal Navy designation was Raider H. She was the last operative German raider of World War II.
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Michel (HSK-9) was an auxiliarycruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated as a merchant raider during World War II. Built by Danziger Werft...
Thor (HSK 4) was an auxiliarycruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in World War II, intended for service as a commerce raider. Also known to the Kriegsmarine...
Captains Helmuth von Ruckteschell of the GermanAuxiliaryCruiserMichel, and to Ernst-Felix Krüder of the cruiser Pinguin. Blockade Runner Badge with diamonds:...
used since the late 19th century in the role of auxiliarycruisers, also called armed merchant cruisers. Note: This listing is incomplete. The Spanish...
Lines in 1941. It was most noted for falling victim to the GermanauxiliarycruiserMichel during the Second World War. Her surviving crew members were...
of auxiliarycruiser "Widder" (HSK-3) 158th Oak Leaves on 23 December 1942 as Kapitän zur See der reserves and commander of auxiliarycruiser "Michel" (HSK...
(including auxiliarycruisers) were used to disrupt Allied shipping in the early years of the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral...
controversy. October 17 – WWII: The last commerce raider, GermanauxiliarycruiserMichel, is sunk off Japan by United States submarine Tarpon. The Burma...
Nazi Germany, during its existence from 1935 to the conclusion of World War II in 1945. See the list of naval ships of Germany for ships in German service...
13333°E / 33.70000; 140.13333 (GermanauxiliarycruiserMichel) Mikuma Imperial Japanese Navy 6 June 1942 A Mogami-class cruiser that was sunk by US aircraft...
French ship Seine II (1917), an auxiliary ship, formerly the German Lynton French ship Seine III (1917), an auxiliary ship HMS Seine Roche, vol.1, p.409...
auxiliarycruiserMichel on the way, arriving at Yokohama on 24 November 1942. Uckermark was then intended as the replenishment ship for the German raider...
but only made a handful of voyages before being sunk by the GermanauxiliarycruiserMichel off the Cape of Good Hope in September 1942. Eleven crew members...
original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021. "Japanese AuxiliaryCruisers". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 21 October 2022. Submarine History:...
This list of auxiliary vessels of Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes...
J&J Denholm's 5,186 GRT cargo steamship Lylepark, which the GermanauxiliarycruiserMichel had sunk in on 11 June. Avila Star reached Freetown on 28 June...
occurred in French Polynesia when German warships attacked on 22 September 1914, during World War I. The German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau...
facto naval auxiliaries and removed the protection of the cruiser rules.[failed verification] The Treaty of Versailles forbade the Germans to operate U-boats...
the outset of World War I, the Imperial German Navy lacked sufficient numbers of warships to perform auxiliary tasks like coastal patrol and convoy escort...
SMS Strassburg was a light cruiser of the Magdeburg class in the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). Her class included three other ships: Magdeburg...
the Allies and declares war on Germany. 17 October – World War II: The last commerce raider, auxiliarycruiserMichel, was sunk off Japan by United States...
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