Regular excursions took her to Gravesend, Margate, Clacton and Dover as well as cross-channel voyages to Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk.

In September 1939 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for minesweeping duties once more and commissioned as HMS Queen of Kent, pennant number J74.

[2] For Operation Overlord in June 1944 she was stationed at Peel Bank off the Isle of Wight as the Mulberry Accommodation & Despatch Control Ship.

In December 1944, she was deployed to Antwerp in Belgium to assist in the protection of the city and its vital docks from Luftwaffe bombing raids and V1 and V2 rockets.

Eleven members of the crew were killed and were buried in what is now the CWGC cemetery at Schooneshof, Wilrijk in Belgium.