Corgi AA36303.(C) Fairey Swordfish Mk.I Royal Navy V4367 No701 Catapult Flight, HMS Malaya, 1940

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Corgi   AA36303.(C)
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Fairey Swordfish Mk.I Royal Navy V4367 No701 Catapult Flight, HMS Malaya, 1940


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Two special squadrons equipped with Swordfish floatplanes were assigned to Royal Navy battleships and cruisers. these were Catapult Flights Nos. 701 and 702. Seventeen more Swordfish squadrons would be formed until the end of WWII. This Swordfish MkI Floatplane was embarked aboard the battleship HMS Malaya in early 1940. the warship operated with the Home Fleet and assisted the carriers in defending the UK from German naval threats in the North Sea and Atlantic.