Nine days later, however, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of the lend-lease agreement in return for another Flower-class corvette then under construction in Canada.

Following the passing of the Lend-Lease Act in March 1941, the United States placed a series of orders with Canadian shipyards for a total of 15 Modified Flower-class corvettes.

[8] Two Admiralty three-drum water-tube boilers provided steam to a 4-cylinder triple-expansion engine rated at 2,880 ihp (2,150 kW) which drove 1 propeller shaft.

[7][8] The Allied Invasion of Normandy in June 1944 saw Statice deployed escorting convoys in the English Channel between Britain and France.

[10] On the evening of 5 July 1944, Statice was part of the escort of a convoy off Beachy Head when she detected a submerged German submarine.

Uncertain whether the U-boat had been sunk, the two destroyers and Statice continued to attack the stationary sonar contact through the rest of the day and into the morning of 7 July.