 After trials and exercises in January and February 1956 "Veryan Bay" sailed from Devonport on 12 March, arriving at Bermuda on the 24th.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 June she visited to South American Atlantic ports, and in July was deployed on the South Shetland Patrol.