The airship frame was made from spruce plywood laminated into girder sections, weatherproofed with varnish, and also fireproofed.

[2] As the airships were intended for fleet protection operations, they were to be fitted with defensive machine guns on top of the envelope, at the stern and in the gondolas.

It set off, again under the command of Squadron Leader Hincks, for the airship base at East Fortune in Scotland.

On the journey, she encountered bad weather, and it was feared that some of the plywood girders were failing, so she diverted to the airship base at Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire for examination and repair.

When the metal-framed R80 became available, the use of the by now obsolete wooden-framed R32 stopped, and, to save money, it was decommissioned and used to assess the effect of a gas-bag bursting.