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Originally Posted by PappyCain
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I often have gone into Cadiz for top up on food, toilet paper, fuel and torps and being neutral know it is a safe zone (coded) and would expect a Brit or other combative had the same courtesy.
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I don't believe this was the case. The interred German ships in Spanish ports were supposedly disarmed and rendered 'useless' for lack of a better word. But due to many factors, including Germanies aid in the recent revolution, and Spain's desire to not be invaded, they allowed, with a blind eye, those ships to perform certain intelligence and logistical operations. Some were used as radio relays and intel gathering stations, others were covert resupply depots, as we know. I don't believe, for the same reasons, the allies were afforded the same 'courtesies'.
All ships of any flag could dock in these ports as normal, as long as their missions were of a non-military intent. Military ships were not allowed to function in neutral ports, since that would make the neutral country no longer neutral.