Editing HMS Devonshire (39) (section)

====1941====
''Devonshire'' remained in the South Atlantic and participated in the unsuccessful hunt for the German commerce raider {{ship|German auxiliary cruiser|Kormoran||2}} in January 1941.<ref>Rohwer, p. 55</ref> The ship subsequently transferred to the Home Fleet and was refitted in [[Liverpool]] 19 February–22 May. During this refit her single 2-pounder guns were replaced by two octuple mounts and an early-warning [[Type 281 radar]].<ref name=rr9>Raven & Roberts, p. 429</ref> She escorted British carriers when they [[Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo|raided Kirkenes and Petsamo]] in Norway and Finland in late July. The following month, ''Devonshire'' provided distant cover for the first convoy to Russia, [[Dervish Convoy|Operation Dervish]],<ref>Rohwer, pp. 88–89, 93</ref> before she was transferred to the Eastern Fleet.<ref name=w9/> Before her departure, the ship received a pair of [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|{{convert|20|mm|1|adj=on|sp=us}} Oerlikon]] light AA guns in September.<ref name=rr9/> On 2 November, the ship led a force that captured a Vichy convoy bound for [[French Indochina]] off [[South Africa]]. Twenty days later, ''Devonshire'' sank a German commerce raider, the auxiliary cruiser ''Atlantis'', north of [[Ascension Island]].<ref name=w9>Whitley, p. 89</ref>