Twenty-four Hurricanes were delivered Sending by Operation Strength , flying Self_motion direct to Vaenga from the aircraft carrier but Operation Dervish , the first Arctic convoy , was diverted Removing from Murmansk to Archangelsk another on .

Despite primitive conditions , the Hurricanes were readied GetReady in nine days , with excellent co-operation from the Russian authorities ; the aircraft flew Self_motion to Vaenga on 12 September .