You mean, apart from when it is carrying bombs, or depth charges?.
A few seconds google on "fairey swordfish bomb" and we get, amongst others:
swordfish
and:
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and this one:
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where we get:
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This soon came to pass, when a floatplane version, flown by W.M.L. Brown off the HMS WARSPITE was used to spot for the guns of that ship, resulting in the destruction of seven German destroyers. (Brown dealt the finishing blow to one of these with a bomb from his aircraft). Shortly afterwards, the same pilot executed the first dive bombing attack by the Fleet Air Arm, resulting in the sinking of a U-boat.
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It was actually U-64, and it was
dive bombed, not depth-charged.
Swordfish flew some night interdiction missions in North Africa, which is probably why the OOB designer included them.
Andy
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