"furious" now had a new destination for her ferry trips and she transported 24 hurricanes to gibraltar on 25 april where they were transferred to to be flown off for malta. she sailed for a brief refit at belfast immediately afterwards. while in belfast she was hit by one small bomb and near-missed by two others during a german air raid in early may, but was only lightly damaged. the ship loaded another batch of 40 hurricane iis, plus nine fulmars from 'x' flight of 800 squadron in liverpool, and arrived back in gibraltar on 18 may. some of these fighters were moved to "ark royal" via planks between the flight decks of the carriers berthed stern to stern. this time she accompanied "ark royal" and the two carriers flew off their fighters from a position south of sardinia. "furious" loaded 48 more hurricane iis and arrived back in gibraltar on 1 june where some of the fighters were transferred to "ark royal". the two carriers departed gibraltar on 4 june and flew off 44 of the 48 fighters. "furious" returned to the clyde for her biggest load of aircraft yet, 64 hurricanes, leaving room for only nine swordfish from 816 squadron on this voyage. upon her arrival on 25 june she transferred 22 hurricanes to "ark royal" and that carrier flew them off to malta the next day. of the 42 hurricanes left on "furious", 26 were moved to "ark royal" when she returned on 28 june. this time, however, both carriers sailed to deliver the fighters to their usual take-off point west of sicily. the tenth of "furious"s aircraft to take off crashed into her island, killing 14 men and starting a serious fire on the flight deck. the blocked flight deck forced the remaining six hurricanes to remain on board and they were returned to gibraltar. "furious" exchanged 816 squadron for 818 from "ark royal", then departed for home.