"Ready" continued to serve with the Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla until the end of the war. When the Grand Fleet was disbanded, "Ready" was allocated to the defence flotilla at HMNB Portsmouth. However, in 1923, the Navy decided to scrap many of the older destroyers in preparation for the introduction of newer and larger vessels. The destroyer was sold to King to be broken up at Garston, Liverpool on 13 July 1926.