Ships that operated together

So I'm just wanting to start a conversation on this one, but also maybe think about future ships.

I'd like to come up with a list of ships that operated together of any kind of noticeable action. Something that would fit into a "big ship" being class 4 or more, and a secondary ship that's class 3 or lower, for IRCWCC at least.

For example, Bismark and Prinz Eugen for Operation Rheinübung, or Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen for the Channel Dash/Operation Cerberus.

a few I was able to find on the allied side, but not sure if it was notable enough to say they operated together was the USS San Juan and the USS South Dakota, at the battle of Santa Cruz. again though, not sure if they were just 2 ships in the same operations, or if they were notably together during the operation.

The Battle of Surigao Strait had quite a few ships there, but i'm not sure if any were specifically paired/grouped together to form any kind of notable formation. from what I can gather, the 6 battleships formed a main line, and what would be s"secondary ships" were in the flanks. I suppose something like that would work, as they were in the same force at the same battle.

I'm not looking for anything specific on this one, just ships that had notably operated together in battle, with one being a big ship and the other being a secondary. Can be any ships allowed in the IRCWCC, and any type.

Just trying to create some dialog and get a feel for the history of these ships we play with.

 

While escorting a convoy of troop transports en route to Guadalcanal, the combined Task Forces 17 and 18 were attacked by the Japanese submarine I-19 on 15 September 1942. The aircraft carrier Wasp was sunk, and the battleship North Carolina and O’Brien were damaged by a spread of six torpedoes from the submarine.


USS O'Brien (DD-415)///USS North Carolina (BB-55),,,,







USS Wasp was there too.(that's her smoking in the background(RIP))

 

I didnt think about even looking up Aircrafy carriers and their task forces.

Looks like TF16 during Operation Watchtower Carrier Enterprise, BB North Carolina, CA Portland, CL Atlanta, and a few destroyers made up the taskforce.

The same task force at the Battle of Santa Cruz had the Enterprise carrier, BB South Dakota, CA Portland, CL San Juan.

I found this website when I started looking at the task forces. Seems accurate enough, lol.

 

Goeben and Breslau in the Med at the start of WW1.

 

i have heard of that towards the end of the war, the USS RADFORD later sunk it

 

I know this is old, but I want to add:

Furutaka, Aoba, Kako, Kinugasa, Yubari (Savo Island)

Yamato, Yahagi, 8 DD's (Operation Ten Go)

Taffy 3 (Samar)