There are some things that get damaged on a submarine that just couldn't be repaired at sea. This was a fact of life in the real boats and it is not a bug in Silent Hunter 4. When your crew can't fix something, it can't be fixed until you return to port.
Hull damage, for instance, is a favorite of the "my crew won't fix damage" crowd. The only unrealistic thing about hull damage is that we have the stupid arcadey hull damage meter. Show me a WWII sub with a hull damage meter! That's crazy. We've become a bunch of babies that the real submariners would laugh at.
Check this out:
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REMEMBER THIS USS TRIGGER?
After attacking a convoy of 20 ships, with 25 escorts, on 23 March 1944, Trigger (Harlfinger) was attacked by six of the escorts for over 17 hours. When she surfaced, Trigger's forward torpedo room was flooded up to the deck plates, her hull air induction was flooded, bow planes, trim pump, and sonar gear and both radars were dead and her radio antennas grounded. After making repairs for the next four days, she rendezvoused with Tang, borrowed air compressor parts, and continued her patrol.
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This means that without rendezvousing with another boat they couldn't fix their air compressor. Case closed.