 Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the vessel undertook minesweeping duties from Brest in Brittany, before being laid up in 1965.In 1974, the ship was transferred to the "Gendarmerie" and undertook patrol duties until finally being decommissioned in 1987.In the early 1950s, the Royal Navy had a requirement for large numbers of minesweepers to counter the threat to British shipping from Soviet mines in the event of a conventional Third World War.