British evacuation of Norway, 1940.

[carnivorousplant]

Churchill writes in his book The Gathering Storm that a shore based squadron of Hurricanes was evacuated by landing on the aircraft carrier Glorious. Did all Hurricanes have tail hooks?

[RickJay]

No, they did not. A skilled pilot could stop a Hurricane pretty quickly.

[eburacum45]

From Wikipedia

HMS Glorious | Norwegian Campaign

. Ten Gladiators of 263 Squadron were flown aboard during the afternoon of 7 June and the Hurricanes of 46 Squadron were also flown aboard without any significant problems in the early evening despite having a much higher landing speed than the biplanes. These had been flown off from land bases to keep them from being destroyed in the evacuation after the pilots discovered that a 7-kilogram (15 lb) sandbag carried in the rear of the Hurricane allowed full brakes to be applied immediately on landing.[38] This was the first time that high-performance monoplanes without tailhooks had been landed on an aircraft carrier.[39]

There’s a link on that page to a primary source;
Haarr, Geirr H. (2010). The Battle for Norway: April–June 1940.

[carnivorousplant]

Thanks.

All Glorious was sunk with the aircraft aboard.

[AK84]

@carnivorousplant

Thanks.

All Glorious was sunk with the aircraft aboard.

The squadron administrative officer managed to retrieve the Squadron’s petty cash box before sinking. He spent hours floating with it before he was picked up. There had been 200 pounds in it, when he counted it back in England, he realized that about 5 pounds had been lost The Squadron was being disbanded and its personnel sent elsewhere, so he asked the Wing HQ what he should do with it. They said that he should keep it and have a party. He thought this was not right, so sent the amount to the Air Ministry, with an explanation.

They immediately constituted a Board of inquiry to figure out what happened to the 5 pounds abd the pilot was grounded for the entirety of the Battle of Britain, before it was omplete.

[Weisshund]

@AK84

The squadron administrative officer managed to retrieve the Squadron’s petty cash box before sinking. He spent hours floating with it before he was picked up. There had been 200 pounds in it, when he counted it back in England, he realized that about 5 pounds had been lost The Squadron was being disbanded and its personnel sent elsewhere, so he asked the Wing HQ what he should do with it. They said that he should keep it and have a party. He thought this was not right, so sent the amount to the Air Ministry, with an explanation.

They immediately constituted a Board of inquiry to figure out what happened to the 5 pounds abd the pilot was grounded for the entirety of the Battle of Britain, before it was omplete.

No good deed goes unpunished?