After "Devonshire" left the area, "U-126" resurfaced and picked up 300 German sailors and a wounded American prisoner. "U-126" carried or towed rafts towards the still-neutral Brazil ( west). Two days later the German refuelling ship "Python" arrived and took the survivors aboard. On 1 December, while "Python" was refueling "U-126" and , another of the British cruisers seeking the raiders, , appeared. The U-boats dived immediately and "Python"s crew scuttled her. "Dorsetshire" departed, leaving the U-boats to recover the survivors. Eventually various German and Italian submarines took Rogge's crew back to St Nazaire.