She sank two Italian submarines while escorting convoys herself in early 1941. Their duties included escorting convoys to Murmansk. Thirty Italian warships were escorting four cargo ships. Squadron flew many sorties until the middle of July escorting bombers and strafing enemy airfields. Other activities included the aerial escorting of ground convoys. The task of escorting merchant convoys was still in the future. In May 1941, she was escorting a convoy in the North Atlantic. His first duties consisted of guarding and escorting Russian prisoners. All eight transports and four of the escorting destroyers were sunk. The Egyptian warship was then sunk by escorting destroyer . Later that month "Malaya" was escorting convoy SL 68. She returned to duty escorting cargo and troop ships to Iceland and Scotland. Nakagawa's tanks and escorting infantrymen were quickly destroyed. The sergeant tells Strobl that he is escorting his deceased brother home. Police officers that had been escorting the pro-Ukrainian demonstrators dispersed the crowd.