Yep - its original Air Ministry specification 0.27/34 specified it as a dual purpose tordpedo bomber/fighter bomber. A total of four squadrons only were ever equiped....basically because it was cr@p! Similarly to the Blackburn Roc, a turrret equiped version with an open cockpit, carrying a tropedo impeded speed in the air! (The fourth and last squadron equiped with Skuas, 806 Sqn., went straight into target-towing!)
The Fleet Air Arm through the war had a long history of shuffling designs that turned out to be unsuitable into shore-based squadrons for shortrange coastal patrols or CAP over fleet anchorages...which was what 800 Sqn was doing over Scapa Flow on the eve of the attack. Fully equiped as fighterbombers, they were referred to as "fighters" because at that time....with their 4 .303 Brownings and one rear-firing Lewis Gun...they were the most-gun-armed aircraft the Fleet Air Arm had!
But "fighters" only in the sense that at exactly the same time in the war AVM Dowding, much further south, was being obligated by the Air Ministry to accept on charge two squadrons of Blenheim
bombers as day-fighters!!! (he was just VERY careful not to let any fly when there were Germans about!
) The sinking of the Konigsberg was still an RN operation with Fleet Air Arm aircraft and personnel.
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