"Manchester" rejoined the 18th CS at Scapa Flow the following day and spent the rest of the month working up. On 18 May the cruiser and "Birmingham" were ordered to patrol the Iceland-Faroe Islands gap, but they played no part in the search for the as they were repositioned north of Iceland in case the German ships attempted to return to Germany through the Denmark Strait after the battlecruiser was sunk on 24 May. The ships returned to Scapa Flow on 3 June and Packer was relieved by Captain Harold Drew. "Manchester" sailed on 9 June to Hvalfjord, Iceland, to patrol the Denmark Strait for the rest of the month, returning to Scapa on 3 July.