The British convoy system functioned well according to the War Cabinet Weekly Résumé No. 64 of the Naval, Military and Air Situation 14-21 November 1940

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An item reported that in the week ending at noon 21 November 781 ships including 135 Allied and 17 neutral ship were escorted. Just nine ships were lost. The escorting warships consisted of 2 capital ships, 1 cruiser, 3 anti-aircraft ships, 14 armed merchant cruisers, 38 destroyers and 39 sloops or corvettes. The British battleship HMS Rodney (1) escorted the homeward-bound convoys and the HMS Revenge (2) the outward bound convoys.

3. Part of Nelson-class, preceded by realized Revenge-class and planned N3-class, succeeded by King George V-class, ordered in 1922, laid down by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England on 28 December 1922, launched on 17 December 1925, completed in August 1927, commissioned on 7 December 1927, out of service in August 1946 and sold to be broken up on 26 March 1948.

4. Part of Revenge-class, preceded by Queen Elizabeth-class, succeeded by planned N3-class and realized Nelson-class, laid down by Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England on 22 December 1913, launched on 29 May 1915, commissioned on 1 February 1916, converted into a training for boiler room personnel in 1944, sold to be broken up in July 1948 arriving at the scrapyard on 5 September 1948

Source

National Archive UK. CAB-66-13-37.