Editing HMS Devonshire (39) (section)

====1944–1945====
[[File:HMS Devonshire FL5895.jpg|thumb|upright=1|''Devonshire'' underway following her 1944 refit]]
She returned to duty with the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow in April 1944. From July until the end of hostilities in May 1945, ''Devonshire'' escorted the carrier raids that were mounted on shipping and other targets in Norwegian waters (Operations [[Operation Mascot|Mascot]], [[Operation Goodwood (naval)|Goodwood]], and [[Operation Hardy|Hardy]]).<ref name=w9/><ref>Rohwer, pp. 343, 349, 368</ref>

With the end of the war in Europe, ''Devonshire'', now the flagship of Rear-Admiral [[James Ritchie (naval officer)|James Ritchie]], the future Flag Officer Norway, sailed on 12 May to [[Oslo]]. She then went to [[Copenhagen]] the next day, and from there she escorted to the UK the German cruisers {{ship|German cruiser|Prinz Eugen||2}} and {{ship|German cruiser|Nürnberg||2}} to [[Wilhelmshaven]] on 24–26 May.<ref>Rohwer, p. 416</ref> In June, ''Devonshire'' was again the flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron, under the command of Vice-Admiral [[Rhoderick McGrigor]], which returned King Haakon to Norway, arriving in Oslo on 7 June. The king himself sailed in her half-sister, {{HMS|Norfolk|78|2}}.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Koester|first1=C. B.|title=The Liberation of Oslo and Copenhagen: A Midshipman's Memoir|journal=The Northern Mariner|date=October 1993|volume=III|issue= 4|pages=49–60|doi=10.25071/2561-5467.781 |s2cid=247645995 |url=http://cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol03/tnm_3_4_49-60.pdf|access-date=16 August 2016}}</ref> Later that month, she was outfitted for use as a troopship, and she was used to transport personnel to and from Australia for the rest of the year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ships in Port|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78483358?searchTerm=(hms%20devonshire)%20date:[1945%20TO%201945]&searchLimits=q-field0|access-date=16 August 2016|work=The Daily News (Perth)|publisher=Trove.au|date=15 October 1945}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Shipping: Port of Freemantle|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/44831040?searchTerm=(hms%20devonshire)%20date:[1945%20TO%201945|access-date=16 August 2016|work=The West Australian|publisher=Trove.au|date=21 November 1945}}</ref> On 29 September, ''Devonshire'' helped to rescued the survivors of {{SS|Empire Patrol}}, a [[freighter (ship)|freighter]] loaded with Greek refugees bound from [[Port Said]], [[Egypt]], to [[Greece]], that had caught fire.<ref>{{cite web|title=S S Empire Patrol..The Rescue|url=http://royalnavymemories.co.uk/s-s-empire-patrolthe-rescue/|website=Royal Navy Memories|access-date=16 August 2016|date=2 July 2009}}</ref>