Battleships escorting convoys

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Originally Posted by Type941

I've read in a book that the British used battleships to escort convoys, and especially during the time when Sharnhorst and such were on their commerce raiding missions. It's from a german source, but I wonder what BBs were used and had that been the case actually? It would be a very nice element to add to the fast large convoys...

It's true. A number of convoys has BB as "far escort". A Task Force attached to convoy against German BB raiders.