 "R80" proved too small for this role and after being used briefly to train the United States Navy personnel who were to crew the ill-fated "ZR-2" airship, "R80" was retired and eventually scrapped in 1925.Construction was begun by Vickers in their airship shed at Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, in November 1917 to a design by Barnes Wallis and H. B. Pratt.Vickers had originally contracted to build "R37", but due to a lack of vacant sheds and a war-time steel shortage preventing construction of a new larger one, the smaller shed at Walney was used instead.