 While based at RNAS North Front, the squadron received new aircraft equipped with ASV (Air to Surface Vessel) radar, enabling them to sink the U-boat on the night of 21 December 1941, and to damage five others.The squadron returned to the UK in April 1942 aboard , and were reattached to Coastal Command in September to fly operations over the English Channel.On 18 December 1942, it was amalgamated into 811 Squadron.