How does Ship Repair work?

[Sun_Killer]

I am curious about ship repair without the old ic. Do I have to but the ships in provinces with dockyards. Can i just assaign dockyards do repair task?
Does anybody have some information about this?
Because just self repairing units without some investment would be kind of inbalanced

 

[blue_yonder]

 

[Utopiar]

Maybe it's both onmap and in the productionque... dedicating resources to rebuild/repair. Can't send the ship on missions and the ship is able to take aditional damage and setting back the repairs. To make the ship active again, you should stop the 'productionque' Maybe only able to use one dockyard, and the level of the harbor decides the repairrate?
At least, this is how i would like it to be

 

[Denkt]

I would say it is free, or atleast much cheaper then building a new ship.

 

[Sun_Killer]

cheaper yes. Much, i don't know. If you have battleship with 2 disabled turrets, major hulldamge, major structure damage. It could be cheaper to write it of, than trying to get damage and bend internal structure back to speccs.