Heres a pic!
Hmmm…
You’re probably meaning a “Seafire”, which would be the naval version of the Spitfire, but I don’t think they were ever fitted with clipped wings, as they’d need the extra wing area for slower landings on carriers.
Probably just a clipped-wing Spitfire of some kind. If you can track down the pic, someone can tell you.
Heres what I was thinking of i think:
mk XIX spit
Ah, but here’s something that even British airshow fans would salivate over – a Mark XIX Spitfire fitted with a late-model Griffon engine from a Shackleton maritime patrol aircraft, complete with the Shackleton’s contra-rotating propellers! As far as I’ve been able to work out, no production Spitfires were ever fitted with contra-rotating propellers, although many did have Griffon engines (you can recognize the Griffon engined Spitfires by the long bulges above the exhaust pipes). However, the naval variant of the Spitfire, called the Seafire, did fly with contra-rotating propellers, so this isn’t an entirely fanciful arrangement. This aircraft was put together some years ago as part of an attempt on a time-to-altitude record.
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