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Originally Posted by Lugermann
Maybe this is useful.
Know war cruises of type XIV:
Source: The Milk Cows. U-Boat Tankers at War 1941-1945. John White. Pen & Sword Military, 2009.
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Good info Lugermann.
Personally I use
u-boat.net for patrol logs as it offers information on daily U-boat positions.
Another good website is
u-historia.com as it contains reports of the main events in each U-boat patrol.
By crossing the information of the two websites above, I have noticed that rendezvous areas for resupplying operations were not random, but planned at fixed locations, and often these locations didn't change for months. My statement above applies for sure to auxiliary (surface) tankers, but it probably can be extended also to U-boat-to-U-boat resupplies.
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Originally Posted by Lugermann
A few U-Boats type XB (long-range minelayers) were used as resupply boats.
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As noted by kapuhy, in case of necessity or when the circumstances made it fit, any long-range U-boat could be used as support vessel for other U-boats. Just as an example, during their long passage from Europe to the Far East, several type IX U-boats of the so called 'Monsun Gruppe' were diverted to fuel other boats.
