SUPERMARINE SPITEFUL / SEAFANG, TOO LATE TO JOIN THE WAR The Supermarine Spiteful was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon -engined fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine to Air Ministry specification F.1/43 during the Second World War as a successor to the Spitfire . The Supermarine Seafang was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon -engined fighter aircraft