"Bulldog" was an unattached ship assigned to Western Approaches Command from 10 February 1942, and aided the destroyer after she had collided with the American merchant ship on 31 March whilst escorting Convoy PQ 14 from Eban, Scotland to Reykjavík, Iceland. On 12 April, she rejoined the convoy en route to Murmansk, where they arrived a week later. Beginning on 28 April, she escorted the returning Convoy QP 11 with the same ships. Two days later the light cruiser joined the convoy. Whilst taking position ahead of the convoy later that day, "Edinburgh" was hit by two torpedoes fired by . The cruiser, heavily damaged and with her steering gear wrecked, was taken in tow for the voyage back to Murmansk. On 1 May the convoy was attacked by the German destroyers Z7 "Hermann Schoemann", , and which had been searching for "Edinburgh". Commander Maxwell Richmond, "Bulldog"s captain and commander of the escorts, interposed his four destroyers between the Germans and the merchantmen and drove off the Germans in a three-hour battle during which "Bulldog" was lightly damaged by shell splinters. She was repaired from 2 June to 14 August, after which she was assigned to the Greenock Special Escort Division. In November she escorted British ships participating in the Allied landings in North Africa (Operation Torch), before returning to Greenock for repairs from 23 November to 14 December.