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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Many types of damage involve replacing things that can't be carried on a ship. Supply ships, especially supply subs, could give a u-boat some food and a couple torpedoes, but a complete resupply was impossible anywhere except in a dedicated base, and repairing damage even more so.
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Granted, but I'm more wondering whether or not stopping to resupply at a German ship in a neutral port was necessarily always a cloak & dagger affair, requiring uboats to spend as little time there as possible, or if it was sometimes considered okay for them to hang around longer and do any repairs they could in that location rather than at sea.