Although heavily damaged, Bermuda was able to be taken to Belfast in Ireland to be rebuilt, but was destroyed there by a second fire on 19 November 1931, and sold for scrap.

She broke loose in a storm while under tow to a Rosyth scrapyard and was wrecked on the Scottish coast in Eddrachillis Bay, near Scourie, Sutherland.

Ships could also follow Hurd's Channel around St. Catherine's Point to reach the Northern Lagoon, enclosed by the barrier reef.

As part of the destroyers-for-bases deal between the US and the UK which granted 99-year leases to the US on parts of the island, the US Navy began construction of a third flying boat air station, combined with naval docklands, called Naval Operating Base Bermuda,[9][10] on the Great Sound, prior to the US entry into the war.

The RNXS was tasked with sending a naval examiner along with the civil government pilot who would steer arriving vessels through the reefs.

Crewed mostly by local-service ratings, she was tasked with anti-submarine patrols within the reefline to prevent attacks like that carried out at Scapa Flow by the German u-boat U-47 on 14 October 1939.

She was travelling as part of Convoy TRIN-19 from Trinidad, with a Merchant Navy crew, when at 2120 hours on 16 October 1942, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-160.