Michel (HSK-9) was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated as a merchant raider during World War II.

Michel began her operations in the South Atlantic and sank the British tanker Patelle (7,469 gross register tons (GRT)) on 19 April.

On 22 April her light motor torpedo boat, LS 4 Esau sank the American tanker Connecticut (8,684 GRT), but an attack on the faster British freighter Menelaus failed on 1 May.

LS 4 Esau discovered the struggling US Liberty ship SS George Clymer (6,800 GRT) and scored two torpedo hits, though the freighter did not sink.

After a successful cruise of eleven and a half months, she arrived in Japan in March 1943, having offloaded the rescued allied sailors at Singapore.

Michel encountered and sank three allied ships over a five-month period, for a total of 27,632 GRT, before making her return to Japan.

The first prey of Michel was the 7715 GRT Norwegian freighter Høegh Silverdawn, sunk south-east of Cocos Islands (25.40S- 92.00E) on the early hours of 15 June, whilst on a voyage from Fremantle, Australia, to Abadan, Iran, with ammunition and general cargo.

[1] The second merchant ship to be sunk by Michel in her second voyage was also Norwegian, the 9940 GRT tanker Ferncastle, which went down the same day that Høegh Silverdawn.

[1] The fate of her last victim, the 9977 GRT Norwegian tanker India, sunk in the southern Pacific on 11 September 1943 with a loss of all hands, would not be known until after the war's end.

[2] The log of the American light cruiser USS Trenton shows that she had a radar contact which lasted for 15 minutes on the previous day.