Ships of this class were designed as cheap, easily built vessels for convoy escort and antisubmarine duties.

[1] At the end of March 1942 she returned to Londonderry and undertook North Sea convoy escort duty for the rest of the year.

In 1943 she was allocated for service in the Mediterranean, including support of the allied landings on Sicily in July of that year.

In 1945 Lauderdale was allocated for service in the Far East and underwent a refit at Simonstown, South Africa.

She was removed from the effective list and returned to British ownership on 12 December 1959 and scrapped in Greece in 1960.