After completing her sea trials, training, and weapons tests she sailed to join to the Escort Group of the British Pacific Fleet.

[1] On 21 March 1947 Veryan Bay was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet, sailing via the Indian Ocean and Suez Canal, and arriving on 2 May to join the 2nd Escort Flotilla.

Veryan Bay remained at Malta taking part in Flotilla and Fleet exercises and visits, with further spells of duty as guardship at Trieste and Aqaba, until April 1950.

Crews, she was transferred on loan with the Royal New Zealand Navy, along with sister ship St Austell Bay, exchanging with the frigates Hawea and Taupo.

There she made visits to various ports and carried out exercises with other RNZN ships, eventually leaving on 28 October, and arriving back at Malta on 4 January 1951.

[1] After a refit in February and March at HM Dockyard, Malta, the ship was transferred to the 7th Frigate Flotilla, Home Fleet, arriving at Plymouth on 21 April.

The ship then visited Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Puerto Cabello, Trinidad, Recife and Montevideo while en route to the Falklands for another tour as guardship, arriving on 22 July.

After patrols around the islands, she left on 14 October, arriving at Kingston on 19 November to embark troops, and the next day was stationed for Air-Sea Rescue duty during the Royal Flight to Bermuda from the UK.

At Bermuda in December she carried out ceremonial duties during the summit meeting[1] between U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the British and French Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Joseph Laniel, to discuss relations with the Soviet Union following the death of Stalin and their development of a hydrogen bomb.

[1] In September she sailed once more to the Falklands for guardship duty, calling at Antigua, Trinidad, Georgetown in British Guiana, and Belém and Salvador in Brazil, and Rio de Janeiro, before arriving at Port Stanley on 23 October.

[1] In March Veryan Bay returned to Bermuda, by way of the west coast of South America, calling at Punta Arenas, Puerto Montt, and Antofagasta in Chile, Mollendo in Peru, and La Libertad, Ecuador, before transiting the Panama Canal.

On 4 April she sailed for the Falklands for guardship duty, routed down the west coast of South America, calling at Callao, Peru, and Antofagasta and Talcahuano, Chile, before transiting the Strait of Magellan, and arriving at Port Stanley on 17 May for local patrols and exercises.

In early August she began a programme of visits, first calling at Puerto Belgrano, Argentina, then Mar del Plata, before sailing 190 miles up-river to Rosario.

She then called at Libreville in French Equatorial Africa, São Tomé Island in the Gulf of Guinea, Lagos, Nigeria, Monrovia, Liberia, and Freetown, Sierra Leone.