Returned to the United Kingdom in 1945, she was recommissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Snapdragon.

Arabis was built at Harland & Wolff, Belfast, as part of the 1939 War Emergency Programme for the Royal Navy.

The same month she was with the ill-fated HX 79 which lost twelve ships in a matter of hours.

After escorting a convoy to Halifax, Nova Scotia, she sailed to Boston for refitting.

She returned to North Atlantic convoy duties in March 1944 and was decommissioned from the United States Navy at Chatham, England in August 1945.