Thanks for the replies.
SailorSteve, do you have the original boxed version of SH4? If so, load up the bonus disk and watch that first video. It's an actual Navy recruitment video talking about how these tender subs sailed with other groups of subs and resupplied them. Of course I might have heard it wrong, and the video might have also been produced much later in the war. In any case, I have my answer between the two of you: deal with it, and remember that US subs, even though sailing in packs, observed radio silence and general autonomy. Between these answers I'll stick with what I said above---it's an approximation (and don't think too much about it).
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