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Paladin left the East Indies Station in October, arriving in Portsmouth in November 1945 and was placed in reserve.
In 1954 she was converted to a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate, with a new pennant number, F169. Twin 4" (102mm)/45 QF Mk.XVI guns guided by a Simple Tachymetric Director replaced her five 4"/45 QF Mk.V main armament. A Type 293 surface/air search radar was fitted, the depth charges were superseded by twin Squid Mk.3 ASW mortars; Mk.5 40mm Bofors and Mk.9 AA guns replaced the ship's original anti-aircraft fit.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh paid a state visit to Holland in HM yacht Britannia in March 1958, Paladin was one of the escorts for the passage to Amsterdam. In May the same year Paladin fired a 21 gun salute when she and two other frigates took over escort duties outside French territorial waters from the French destroyer Jaureguiberry.
She was scrapped in 1961, handed over to 'BISC' on 22 October 1962 and broken up.
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