HSK9 Michel
1942
(Neptun 1026)
- Class: Schiff 28
- Displacement: 4,740 tons
- Dimensions: 435 x 55 x 24 ft.
- Machinery: 1-shaft diesel, B.H.P. 6,650 = 16 knots
- Armament: 6-5.9in, 3-37mm AA, 2-20mm AA guns; 4-21in TT (2x2); 2 aircraft; small motor torpedo boat LS 4
- Complement: 400
- Builder: Danziger Werft, Danzig
- Launched: 1939
- Notes: Built originally as Bielsko for the Polish Gdynia America Line. Requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and converted to hospital ship Bonn. In the summer of 1941 she was converted into an auxiliary cruiser and renamed Michel, commissioning 7 Sep 1941. Sailed from Flushing 13 Mar 1942. Sank or captured a total of 18 ships of 127,107 tons in 505 days at sea. Refit at Kobe, Japan, Mar-May 1943. Torpedoed and sunk by American submarine Tarpon 17 Oct 1943 off Yokohama.
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