She deployed again on 15 May screening fleet units covering convoys to reinforce Crete.

For the next four months, Beatty covered convoys plying the Atlantic.

Upon completion in 1942, Anson like Howe would spend most of her career covering convoys bound for Russia.

She then covered convoys to Russia.

Like her sister ship Anson, she was to spend the early years of her combat career in Arctic waters, covering convoys bound for Russia.

The ship covered multiple convoys to Greece and Malta during the rest of November.

The ship covered several convoys to Malta before she struck a mine and had to be sunk in December 1940.

Only one or two aircraft were sent to cover convoys as they approached Britain as a result air-to-air combat was rare.

The unit undertook eight more patrol missions over Mindoro, covering allied convoys.

The group also covered convoys and engaged numerous Luftwaffe aircraft in combat.