"Foxhound" then returned to Gibraltar and escorted the aircraft carriers and "Ark Royal" during Operations Coat and White in November. In between sorties into the Mediterranean, the ship escorted convoys between Gibraltar and West Africa. In early January 1941, she was involved in Operation Excess. On 31 January, Force H, including "Foxhound", departed Gibraltar to carry out Operation Picket, an unsuccessful night torpedo attack by eight of "Ark Royal"s Fairey Swordfish on the Tirso Dam in Sardinia. The British ships returned to Gibraltar on 4 February and began preparing for Operation Grog, a naval bombardment of Genoa, that was successfully carried out five days later. On 7 April, "Foxhound" was escorting Convoy WS 7 off the coast of Sierra Leone, West Africa, when she rescued three seamen. They were survivors from the cargo liner , which had been sunk a week earlier. In mid-May, she participated in Operation Splice, another mission in which the carriers "Ark Royal" and flew off fighters for Malta.