{"id":32585031,"date":"2026-11-13T10:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/supermarine-seafire-naval-spitfire-salerno-korea-history\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:02:07","slug":"supermarine-seafire-naval-spitfire-salerno-korea-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/supermarine-seafire-naval-spitfire-salerno-korea-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermarine Seafire: The Spitfire That Struggled to Land at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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For the pilots of 106 Seafires circling above them, it was the start of a nightmare.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Their escort carriers could barely make 17 knots, and with no natural wind there was not enough air flowing over the deck to slow a landing fighter down. Within three days, most of the Royal Navy&rsquo;s fighter cover was out of action, put there not by the Luftwaffe but by its own flight decks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That was the paradox of the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-seafire\/\">Supermarine Seafire<\/a>. It was a thoroughbred in the air, a genuine Spitfire with a hook. On a pitching carrier it could be a liability. This is the story of how the Royal Navy got its Spitfire, what it cost, and why the type still flew in combat over Korea in 1950.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Supermarine Seafire, naval version of the Spitfire<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Name:<\/strong> Contraction of &ldquo;Sea Spitfire&rdquo;<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Operator:<\/strong> Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First deliveries:<\/strong> June 1942, to 807 Squadron (Seafire Ib)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First combat:<\/strong> Operation Torch, North Africa, November 1942<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Most numerous:<\/strong> Seafire III, the first with folding wings, about 1,220 built<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Salerno, 1943:<\/strong> 106 Seafires deployed; only 39 serviceable by day three<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Last combat:<\/strong> Seafire 47s of 800 Squadron, HMS <em>Triumph<\/em>, Korea, July to September 1950<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Replaced by:<\/strong> Hawker Sea Fury and early naval jets<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Spitfire for the Navy<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The name says it all: Seafire is a contraction of &ldquo;Sea Spitfire.&rdquo; The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/fleet-air-arm\/\">Fleet Air Arm<\/a> wanted one long before it got one. The Admiralty first showed interest in a carrier-borne <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\">Spitfire<\/a> in 1938, and in early 1940 a contract for 50 folding-wing Spitfires was agreed. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, cancelled it in March 1940. Every Spitfire was needed for the coming battle over Britain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So the Navy made do with what it had. The two-seat <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fairey-fulmar\/\">Fairey Fulmar<\/a> soldiered on, and American <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f4f-wildcat\/\">Grumman F4F Wildcats<\/a>, known in British service as Martlets, filled the gap. Only in late 1941 did the Air Ministry relent and release Spitfire Vbs for conversion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The result, the Seafire Ib, was little more than a hooked Spitfire: an A-frame arrester hook, strengthened lower longerons, naval radio and instruments recalibrated to knots. Some 166 were converted, and 807 Squadron took the first deliveries in June 1942. The Seafire IIc that followed was the first built as a Seafire from the start, but neither version had folding wings, which kept them off carriers with small lifts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06kldAC7nus\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Period film of Seafire deck operations in the Royal Navy, around 1943.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Built for runways, sent to sea<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The problem was baked into the design. The Spitfire was a short-range, land-based interceptor, and its narrow-track undercarriage was meant for grass and concrete, not a moving steel deck. The many naval modifications moved the centre of gravity aft, and the aircraft&rsquo;s long nose and gentle float on touchdown made it hard to put down accurately and catch a wire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Heavy landings wrinkled rear fuselages, collapsed oleo legs and tore off hooks. On the plus side, the Seafire was a genuinely high-performance fighter, well able to hold its own against German and Italian opponents.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Its first test came in November 1942, during Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa. Seafires of 801 and 807 Squadrons flew from HMS <em>Furious<\/em> and, unusually, wore American star markings for the operation. In July 1943 they covered the invasion of Sicily. Then came Salerno.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/seafire-nosed-over-hms-smiter-1944.jpg\" alt=\"A Supermarine Seafire tipped onto its nose on the flight deck of the escort carrier HMS Smiter after a heavy landing\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Seafire nosed over on the escort carrier HMS <em>Smiter<\/em> after a heavy landing during exercises in 1944, the kind of accident that crippled Force V at Salerno. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_Supermarine_Seafire_nosed_over_on_the_flight_deck_of_HMS_SMITER_after_a_landing_accident,_1944_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Navy official photographer \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Salerno: the flat calm<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Operation Avalanche, the landings at Salerno, was the largest Seafire deployment yet. The beaches were at the edge of fighter range from Sicily, so the Navy&rsquo;s carriers had to provide the umbrella. Most of the Seafires flew from the aircraft maintenance ship HMS <em>Unicorn<\/em> and the escort carriers <em>Attacker<\/em>, <em>Battler<\/em>, <em>Hunter<\/em> and <em>Stalker<\/em>, grouped as Force V under Rear-Admiral Philip Vian.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The plan was for the Seafires to cover the beachhead for a single day, until land-based fighters could fly in. Instead, the army took four days to capture the Montecorvino airfield, and the little carriers had to keep going in near-windless conditions. On the first day the Seafires flew 265 sorties, holding an umbrella over the landing craft and chasing off German fighter-bombers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;By this time our available fighters had been greatly reduced in numbers, not primarily as a result of air combat, of which there had been a great deal fewer than had been expected, but owing to wastage from landing accidents.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Rear-Admiral Philip Vian<\/strong> &mdash; Commander of Force V at Salerno, in his memoir <em>Action This Day<\/em> (via Armoured Carriers)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The landings were the cost. Seafires missed the wires and slammed into the crash barriers, tore off their hooks, burst their undercarriages or tipped onto their noses. By the third day, only 39 of the 106 Seafires were ready for action. According to the operational analysis summarised by Armoured Carriers and History of War, 42 Seafires were written off, 32 of them in landing accidents, and none to enemy action. <em>Unicorn<\/em> alone, with turbulent air over her deck, accounted for 21 of the landing accidents.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Fleet Air Arm pilot Hugh Popham, whose squadron was sent across to reinforce <em>Unicorn<\/em>, later described what he found.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;They had come roaring in, shedding their hooks, thumping into the barrier, dropping into the park, going over the side, until the hangars were choked with wrecks.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Hugh Popham<\/strong> &mdash; Fleet Air Arm pilot, <em>Sea Flight: The Wartime Memoirs of a Fleet Air Arm Pilot<\/em> (via Armoured Carriers)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Yet the Seafires did their job. Despite the losses, they kept fighters over the beaches, forced dozens of German fighter-bombers to jettison their bombs, and stayed on station days longer than planned. Crews even improvised a fix for propeller tips striking the deck on arrested landings, trimming the blades by two inches, according to Armoured Carriers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afmxhriNT1Q\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Armoured Archivist&rsquo;s documentary on the Seafires at Salerno and why the operation damaged the type&rsquo;s reputation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Folding wings and kamikazes<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Help was already arriving. The Seafire III, which entered service in 1943, was the first true carrier adaptation of the design, with manually folding wings that let far more aircraft fit on deck and in the hangar. With some 1,220 built, it became the most numerous Seafire of all.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In 1944 Seafires flew cover for the Fleet Air Arm strikes on the battleship <em>Tirpitz<\/em> in Norway, and supported the landings in southern France. Then they went east with the British Pacific Fleet. Short range kept them from escorting strikes, so they took on the vital job of combat air patrol over the fleet, while the longer-legged <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f6f-hellcat\/\">Hellcats<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f4u-corsair\/\">Corsairs<\/a> went with the bombers. To stretch their endurance, crews fitted drop tanks originally made for Curtiss P-40 Warhawks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/seafire-barrier-crash-hms-indefatigable-1945.jpg\" alt=\"A Supermarine Seafire with its propeller bent after hitting the crash barrier on HMS Indefatigable, 1 April 1945\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Seafire hits the barrier on HMS <em>Indefatigable<\/em> after returning from a strike on the Japanese-held oil refinery at Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra, 1 April 1945. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_Supermarine_Seafire_hits_the_barrier_on_HMS_INDEFATIGABLE_after_returning_from_a_strike_on_the_Japanese_oil_refinery_at_Pangkalan_Brandan,_Sumatra,_1_April_1945._A27176.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lt C. Trusler, Royal Navy official photographer \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Over Okinawa and later off the Japanese home islands, Seafires from HMS <em>Indefatigable<\/em> intercepted kamikaze attacks aimed at the British carriers. Their last combat of the war came on 15 August 1945, when a dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/a6m-zero\/\">Zeros<\/a> clashed with a mixed force of Avengers and Seafires.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The deck problems never fully went away, especially when Seafires had to land on carriers set up for bigger American fighters. One Fleet Air Arm maintainer, on a carrier operating Corsairs, remembered Seafire visitors bluntly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;To be honest, whilst the Seafire appeared to be good in the air, it left a lot to be desired as a carrier borne plane. We dreaded receiving them, and I cannot recall a successful landing.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>B.M. Evans<\/strong> &mdash; Leading Air Mechanic, Fleet Air Arm (via Armoured Carriers)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Griffon power and a last war in Korea<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>After the war the Navy replaced its Merlin-engined Seafires with Griffon-powered versions, and the extra power brought new trouble. The Griffon turned the opposite way to the Merlin, and on take-off its torque swung the aircraft hard to starboard, sometimes towards the carrier&rsquo;s island. The Seafire XVII tamed the deck behaviour with a longer-stroke undercarriage, and the final Mk 46 and Mk 47 used contra-rotating propellers that cancelled out the swing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The definitive Seafire 47 added hydraulically folding wings. It was the last of the line, and the only one to fight again. In 1949, Seafire 47s of 800 Squadron flew rocket strikes against communist guerrillas in Malaya from bases ashore, while their carrier, HMS <em>Triumph<\/em>, was in the Far East.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/seafire-47-hms-unicorn-kure-1950.jpg\" alt=\"A Seafire 47 on the deck of HMS Unicorn dressed with flags in Kure harbour, Japan, May 1950\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Seafire 47 on the deck of HMS <em>Unicorn<\/em> at Kure, Japan, in May 1950, weeks before the Korean War began. <em>Unicorn<\/em> later supplied replacement Seafires to HMS <em>Triumph<\/em>. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Seafire_47_on_HMS_Unicorn_(I72)_at_Kure_1950.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian armed forces \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>When North Korea invaded the South in June 1950, <em>Triumph<\/em> was in Far Eastern waters and was placed at the disposal of the UN forces. On 3 July her Seafires and <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fairey-firefly\/\">Fireflies<\/a> attacked Haeju airfield. Because the Americans thought the Seafires looked like the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/yak-9\/\">Yak-9s<\/a> flown by North Korea, they were painted with black and white recognition stripes. Even so, on 26 July a <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/b-29-superfortress\/\">B-29<\/a> gunner shot one down after the fighters had identified the bombers as friendly. The pilot escaped.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Spare Seafire 47s ran out quickly, and the hard deck work kept wrinkling fuselages. By 20 September 1950 <em>Triumph<\/em> had only four serviceable Seafires left. She was relieved by HMS <em>Theseus<\/em>, carrying <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-sea-fury\/\">Hawker Sea Furies<\/a>, and the Seafire&rsquo;s last combat deployment was over.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The verdict<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Seafire was a compromise, and everyone who flew it knew it. It was too fragile for heavy deck landings, too short-legged for long carrier operations, and it cost the Navy more aircraft to accidents than to the enemy. But it was also a genuinely high-performance fighter, and it arrived when the Navy had little else.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tDAiC780W4Y\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Seafire F Mk XVII SX336 flying at Old Warden in July 2015.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A few survive. Seafire LF IIIc PP972, which served with 809 Squadron, flies again in the UK as G-BUAR, and Navy Wings operates Seafire XVII SX336. Watch one land on a grass runway and it looks easy. On a carrier in a flat calm off Salerno, it was anything but.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/seafire-lf-iii-pp972-g-buar-flying-legends-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Airworthy Supermarine Seafire LF III PP972, registered G-BUAR, taxiing on grass during the Flying Legends air show, 2016\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Seafire LF IIIc PP972, now G-BUAR, at Flying Legends 2016. It served with 809 Squadron before passing to the French Navy. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Supermarine_Seafire_LF_III_G-BUAR_-_Flying_Legends_2016_(27611382384).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wallycacsabre \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Armoured Carriers (Seafire operational history), History of War (Supermarine Seafire), Imperial War Museums photo archive, Philip Vian <em>Action This Day<\/em>, Hugh Popham <em>Sea Flight<\/em><\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<p class=\"mf-photo-credits\" data-no-translation style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin:6px 0 18px\">Header photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_Supermarine_Seafire_landing_on_board_HMS_ILLUSTRIOUS,_February_1943._A20643.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Navy official photographer \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was the Supermarine Seafire?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Supermarine Seafire was the naval version of the Spitfire, adapted for operation from Royal Navy aircraft carriers. Its name is a contraction of Sea Spitfire. It entered Fleet Air Arm service in June 1942 and flew in combat from Operation Torch in 1942 to the Korean War in 1950.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why was the Seafire hard to land on carriers?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Seafire was derived from the land-based Spitfire, with a narrow-track undercarriage not designed for heavy deck landings. Naval modifications moved its centre of gravity aft, and its long nose and float on touchdown made accurate landings difficult. Hooks tore off, undercarriages collapsed and rear fuselages wrinkled after hard arrivals.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to the Seafires at Salerno?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">At Salerno in September 1943, 106 Seafires covered the landings from escort carriers that could barely make 17 knots in near-windless conditions. Landing accidents left only 39 serviceable by the third day. An operational analysis counted 42 written off, 32 in landing accidents, and none lost to enemy action.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which Seafire variant was built in the largest numbers?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Seafire III was the most numerous variant, with about 1,220 built. It was the first true carrier adaptation of the Spitfire design, introducing manually folding wings that allowed more aircraft to be stowed on deck and in the hangars. It became the main wartime version of the Seafire.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the Seafire fight in the Korean War?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. Seafire 47s of 800 Naval Air Squadron flew from HMS Triumph off Korea from July to September 1950, attacking airfields, ports and shipping and flying combat air patrols. One was shot down by a B-29 gunner in a friendly-fire incident. HMS Theseus, carrying Sea Furies, replaced Triumph.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What replaced the Seafire in Royal Navy service?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Hawker Sea Fury, the Fleet Air Arm&rsquo;s last piston-engined fighter, replaced the Seafire, alongside early naval jets. After HMS Triumph left Korean waters in September 1950, 800 Squadron disbanded in November 1950 and the Seafire was soon withdrawn from front-line service.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Are there any flying Seafires today?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes, a few Seafires remain airworthy in the UK. Seafire LF IIIc PP972, which served with 809 Squadron and later the French Navy, flies as G-BUAR, and Seafire XVII SX336 is operated by Navy Wings. 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