Under refit when Germany surrendered in early May 1945, "Exmoor" was selected for service in the Eastern Fleet. She rejoined her flotilla in the Mediterranean in May 1945, but on 1 June 1945 departed for the United Kingdom, where she began another refit in the commercial shipyard at Royal Albert Dock in London to prepare for service in Southeast Asia. Upon the armistice with Japan that ended World War II on 15 August 1945, however, her refit and deployment to the Eastern Fleet were cancelled.