As a cruiser she served on patrol duty and as a convoy escort, mostly in the North and South Atlantic.

In March 1941 she visited Deception Island and destroyed shore facilities there to prevent their use by German merchant cruisers.

[8] In 1943 she served with the Eastern Fleet[5] in the Indian Ocean and made one visit to Fremantle in Western Australia.

For the next two years she carried troops between Britain, Gibraltar, Port Said in Egypt and Taranto in Italy, and in 1945 she made one visit to Bombay.

In 1946 she repatriated Italian prisoners of war from Liverpool to Naples and UK military personnel from the Far East to Britain.

[2] Her sister Monarch of Bermuda did not join her as she had been damaged by fire in a shipyard in 1947 and Furness, Withy had sold her.

In 1951 a new Furness, Withy ship, the 13,834 GRT Ocean Monarch, joined Queen of Bermuda on the route.

[4] New owners bought Ocean Monarch for further passenger service but Queen of Bermuda was sold for scrap.