 In November she sailed to Trieste to act as guardship until January 1948.After local exercises at Malta in February, and then a refit (at which time her pennant number was changed to F651), "Veryan Bay" was deployed to patrol in the Red Sea in April and May, before returning to the Palestine Patrol, based at Cyprus, then to Trieste for further guardship duty.On 13 December Captain H.C.N.