"Hasty" bombarded Vichy French positions in Lebanon on 4 July during the Syria-Lebanon Campaign, and then spent most of the rest of the year escorting convoys to Tobruk. On 25 November she was escorting the capital ships of the Mediterranean Fleet when the battleship "Barham" was torpedoed and sunk by . While escorting a convoy, "Hasty" and her sister, , sank on 23 December north of Sollum. In January 1942, the ship escorted Convoys MF.3 and MF.4 from Alexandria to Malta, but was switched to the covering force for Convoy MF.5 in mid-February. She was transferred to the 22nd Destroyer Flotilla on 24 February "Hasty" was escorting the merchants ships of Convoy MW.10 when the Second Battle of Sirte began on 22 March, but defended the convoy against the and three cruisers by threatening torpedo attacks from under the cover of a severe storm and a smoke screen. "Hasty" was torpedoed by the German E-Boat "S-55" under the command of "Oberleutnant zur See" Horst Weber as she covered a large convoy to Malta during Operation Vigorous, killing 13 men. The torpedo blew off most of the bow structure and both boiler rooms started to flood. "Hotspur" took off her crew and scuttled her with a torpedo during the morning of 15 June 1942.