On Fri. 01 Sep 1939 12 Swordfish torpedo bombers of 814 Naval Air Squa.....

12 Swordfish torpedo bombers of 814 Naval Air Squadron landed aboard HMS Hermes to join her air crew.

HMS Hermes was an aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy. The ship began construction during World War I and finished after the war ended. She was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the Imperial Japanese Navy's Hōshō was the first to be commissioned and launched

Photo wiki: HMS Hermes off Yantai, China, circa 1931