page_title: Supermarine Seafire
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Supermarine Seafire / Operators
caption_attribution_description: English: A Supermarine Seafire being brought up onto the flight deck of HMS FURIOUS, August 1944. A Supermarine Seafire being brought up on a lift to the flight deck of HMS FURIOUS. Another aircraft can be seen at the far end of the flight deck.
context_page_description: The Supermarine Seafire was a naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire adapted for operation from aircraft carriers. It was analogous in concept to the Hawker Sea Hurricane, a navalised version of the Spitfire's stablemate, the Hawker Hurricane. The name Seafire had been derived from the abbreviation of the longer name Sea Spitfire.
  The idea of adopting a navalised carrier-capable version of the Supermarine Spitfire had been mooted by the Admiralty as early as May 1938. Despite a pressing need to replace various types of obsolete aircraft that were still in operation with the Fleet Air Arm, some opposed the notion, such as Winston Churchill, although these disputes were often a result of an overriding priority being placed on maximising production of land-based Spitfires instead. During 1941 and early 1942, the concept was again pushed for by the Admiralty, culminating in an initial batch of Seafire Mk Ib fighters being provided in late 1941, which were mainly used for pilots to gain experience operating the type at sea.
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  706 Naval Air Squadron 1945–1946
  719 Naval Air Squadron
  727 Naval Air Squadron 1946–1950
  728 Naval Air Squadron
  736Naval Air Squadron 1943-1952
  737 Naval Air Squadron 1944–1945
  761 Naval Air Squadron
  764 Naval Air Squadron 1945
  771 Naval Air Squdadron 1946-1950
  772 Naval Air Squadron
  777 Naval Air Squadron
  778 Naval Air Squadron
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  802 Naval Air Squadron 1945–1950
  803 Naval Air Squadron 1945–1946
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  806 Naval Air Squadron 1945
  807 Naval Air Squadron 1942-1945
  808 Naval Air Squadron 1944-1945
  809 Naval Air Squadron 1942-1945
  812 Naval Air Squadron 1946-1952
  Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
caption: A Seafire being brought up to the flight deck of HMS Furious
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