On 11 March "Quail" was deployed with "Queenborough" and "Raider" to cover the passage of convoy WS27, bound for Durban. They escorted it to Durban, arriving on 24 March when they were detached. They returned to Freetown in April, where "Quail" was nominated to return to the UK. She took passage from Freetown on 29 April in company with the destroyer . They arrived in the UK, and rejoined the flotilla at Scapa Flow in May. In June "Quail" was nominated to support the allied landings in Sicily (Operation Husky). She sailed for Gibraltar as part of an escort for capital ships of the Home Fleet that were also assigned to cover the landings. She deployed out of Malta and on 8 July sailed as part of a screen for the battleships , , and , the aircraft carriers and and the cruisers , , and , with the destroyers , "Queenborough", , , , , "Raider", , , , , , , , , the Greek and the Polish in the Western Mediterranean. They provided cover against Italian interference in the allied landings, and by 12 July the escorting destroyers were deployed on interception patrols. On 14 July "Quail" and "Quilliam" deployed with the cruisers "Cleopatra" and "Euryalus" off the east coast of Sicily.