Launched by rocket-powered catapult from ships without flight decks, and later flying from escort carriers, the Sea Hurricane and its pilots fought with incredible distinction, as Paul E Eden explained in the March 2014 issue of Aviation News
Considering the bare facts of its creation, the Hawker Sea Hurricane perhaps ought to have been a failure. Several hundred were produced, all of them by conversion from existing airframes and many of the earlier examples from Hurricanes already pretty much worn out from Battle of Britain combat.
The original Sea Hurricane Mk IA had no arrester hook and therefore could not land back aboard ship – although since the Royal Navy could spare no aircraft carriers from which to operate its latest fighter, this fact was purely academic.
