'Callboy' (i) was a British naval delivery of aircraft to Malta (16/19 October 1941).

Following the two 'Status' undertakings, 'Callboy' (i) was designed to replenish and strengthen not Malta’s defensive fighter force but rather the offensive capability of the island’s torpedo bomber force. The elderly carrier Argus therefore embarked the crews and 12 Fairey Albacore single-engined biplane bombers of the Fleet Air Arm’s No. 828 Squadron in the Clyde river and sailed as part of the WS.12 convoy on 1 October, detaching to Gibraltar escorted by the destroyers Cossack, Sikh and Zulu, and arriving there on 8 October.

Disembarked at Gibraltar, the aircraft and their personnel were then loaded onto the modern fleet carrier Ark Royal, which sailed for the flying-off position on 16 October escorted by elements of Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Gibraltar-based Force 'H' in the form of the battleship Rodney, the light anti-aircraft cruiser Hermione, and the destroyers Cossack, Forester, Foresight, Fury, Legion, Sikh and Zulu.

On 18 October Ark Royal launched 11 Albacore and two Fairey Swordfish single-engined biplane bombers, all but one Swordfish reaching Malta after a 525-mile (845-km) flight.

The ships returned to Gibraltar on 19 October. During this operation, the light cruisers Aurora and Penelope and the destroyers Lance and Lively also made passage to Malta to form the basis Captain W. G. Agnew’s Force 'K' as the core of the island’s surface attack force in its undertakings to interdict the Axis surface supply route across the Mediterranean to North Africa.

Argus and the fleet carrier Eagle, escorted by the destroyers Forester, Foresight and Fury all the way to the Clyde, and Sikh and Zulu as additional local escort, departed Gibraltar on 21 October and reached the Clyde river on 26 October.