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 streets crowded with mourners. The bodies were then taken to Cardington village for burial in a common grave in the cemetery of St Mary's Church. A monument was later erected, and the scorched Royal Air Force roundel which R101 had flown on its tail is on display, along with a memorial tablet, in the church's nave. On 1 October 1933, the Sunday before the third anniversary of the crash, a memorial to the dead near the crash site was unveiled by the side of Route nationale 1 near Allonne. There is also a memorial marker on the actual crash site.