Home Fleet Operations
In March 1943 after training at Scapa Flow, Uganda sailed as convoy escort to protect a Sierra Leone-bound convoy from the German Narvik-class destroyers operating out of the Bay of Biscay. After two such convoy duties, she was sent as escort for the RMS Queen Mary carrying Winston Churchill and his staff to Washington. The journey was made at 30 knots (56 km/h), and the ship sailed into Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland low on fuel. Upon return from that duty the Uganda returned to Plymouth for a refit.
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