Originally Posted by
Davef68
There were early trials on Eagle and Ark Royal, with development aircraft and GR1s (If I recall, No 1 took aircraft onto Ark Royal as a squadron) and later there were a couple of trials on Hermes, on e in 1977 involving both single and twin seat aircraft (A DB aircraft, a GR3, a T4 and G-VTOL embarked).
https://flic.kr/p/a3fKXX
Eagle embarked 2 GR1s in March 1970 which made 58 sorties.