The Vichy French reformed the FHM after the French surrender in June. "Kersaint" was present when the Royal Navy attacked the ships in French Algeria in July to prevent them from being turned over to the Germans, but managed to escape. The ship was in reserve until she was activated in mid-1941. "Kersaint" was scuttled in Toulon when the Germans occupied Vichy France in November 1942. The ship was not significantly salvaged during the war and her wreck was broken up in 1950.