on the night of 7–8 june, the "glorious", under the command of captain guy d'oyly-hughes (who was a submarine specialist and had only 10 months' experience in aircraft carrier operations), took on board 10 gloster gladiators and eight hawker hurricanes from no. 46 squadron raf and no. 263 squadron royal air force, the first landing of modern aircraft without arrestor hooks on a carrier. these had been flown off from land bases to keep them from being destroyed in the evacuation. "glorious" was part of a troop convoy headed for scapa flow, also including the carrier .