After two Sierra Leone convoy runs, Uganda escorted RMS Queen Mary while Winston Churchill and his staff traveled to Washington. The ships maintained roughly 30 knots across the Atlantic to Naval Station Argentia. Uganda arrived very low on fuel after such a long high-speed passage. Even a fast cruiser paid a severe endurance price for sustaining that speed across an ocean.
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Uganda's 30-knot escort of RMS Queen Mary
A high-speed transatlantic escort for Churchill's Queen Mary shows the fuel cost of sustaining cruiser speed over oceanic distance.