HMS Tempest (H71) destroyer flotilla in supporting the small craft inshore, "within close range of the enemy's heavy batteries". "Tempest" remained with the Tenth Flotilla at Harwich until its dispersal in February 1919. In October 1919, she was recommissioned with a reduced compliment. In October 1930, "Tempest" was used to repatriate the bodies of 48 men who had been killed in the crash of the R101 airship near Beauvais in France. The bodies were carried by "Tempest" from Boulogne-Sur-Mer to Dover, from where they were taken by rail to lie in state at Westminster Hall. She was finally sold for scrapping on 28
R101 new course was set to bring R101 over Orly, based on an estimated wind direction of 245 degrees and speed of . The intended course would have taken R101 four miles west of Beauvais, but the estimated wind speed and direction were inaccurate, as a result of which the 101's track was to the east of its intended course. This error would have become apparent when, at about 01:00, R101 passed over Poix-de-Picardie, a distinctive hilltop town that would have been readily recognisable to the navigation officer, Squadron Leader E.L. Johnston. Accordingly, R101 changed course: the new course would take