However, on 3 April 1941 it was agreed that she would be allocated (along with HMS Oakley) to the Polish Navy to replace the ex-French destroyer Ouragan which was being manned by the Poles.

In December of that year she was among the ships to take part in the successful raid against a German naval outpost on the Lofoten islands.

Altogether, during the Second World War she covered over 146,000 nautical miles (270,000 km) escorting 206 different convoys, including nine in the North Atlantic.

At the end of the war, she was active in Operation Deadlight (November 1945 – February 1946), in which German U-boats were towed out to an area north-west of Ireland to be scuttled.

As such she represented the Reserve Fleet during Queen Elizabeth II's coronation celebrations in Spithead in July 1953.