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 outer cover flapping, but after an examination of their operation F. W. McWade, the Air Inspectorate Department inspector at Cardington, concluded that their operation was satisfactory and they were not likely to have been the cause of any significant loss of gas. As an experimental aircraft, R101 had been operating under a temporary "Permit to Fly", the responsibility of McWade. On 3 July, bypassing his immediate superior, he wrote a letter to the Director of Aeronautical Inspection, Lieutenant-Colonel H. W. S. Outram, expressing his unwillingness to recommend either an extension to the permit or the granting of the full Certificate