On 4 August 1941 Oribi carried British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and senior officers from Scrabster to Scapa Flow, where the group embarked on HMS Prince of Wales for passage to Newfoundland and the highly secret meeting with US President Franklin D Roosevelt at which the Atlantic Charter was signed.

[2] Oribi was one of the destroyers that supported Operation Archery, the November 1941 commando raid on Norway, by shelling the islands and attacking German shipping in the sheltered anchorage.

She also assisted in bringing Norwegian nationals home after the raid to escape the German occupation.

At 03:00 on 6 May 1943 U-125 was located by radar in thick fog, rammed by HMS Oribi and disabled, she was unable to dive.

Snowflake and Sunflower thereupon resumed their positions around the convoy, while the crew of U-125 died in the Atlantic over the next few hours.