Noted Operations
In March 1942, she sailed with Pozarica, and the corvettes HMS Poppy, Lotus, La Malouine and HMS Dianella for the port of Seyðisfjörður.
In June 1942, she sailed as an escort in the infamous Convoy PQ-17, where 25 out 36 ships were lost to the enemy, while working around Murmansk and Archangel .
In November 1942, HMS Palomares took part in the Operation Torch landings in Algiers as an Anti Aircraft ship. The ship left Gibraltar on the 3rd and arriving on the 8th. However the next day Palomares was hit by a bomb suffering large number of casualties, engulfed in flames her steering gear was put out of action. Deceased seamen were transferred to the corvette Samphire for burial at sea and her steering gear was repaired by the 10th .
In September 1943, during the Salerno landings of Italy on the 9th, Palomares was a Fighter Direction ship, directing fighter planes with her radar system.
In January 1944 Palomares again served as a Fighter Direction ship during the Anzio landings. Arriving at the beachhead on the 22nd, she struck a mine and was towed back to Naples by the tugs Edenshaw and Evea.
In September 1945 Palomares was to have participated in the Malay landing but couldn't as fire damaged her engine room.
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