Airship and RAF Traces The loss of the R-101 effectively ended hopes for a British commercial and military airship programme. The industry lay in ruins. In 1931 the R-100 was scrapped in Hangar No 1.

The British planned to refurbish existing R33 ... During their careers, two were used as flying aircraft carriers. "The R101 Airship story is one of political leadership spurring investment ...

This cast aluminium ashtray was made from the wreckage of the R38 airship salvaged from the Humber ... which for the UK was completed by the R101 disaster although the 1937 crash of the German ...