Swordfish fun
Not quite re. your questions, but I think worth mentioning...
My late colleague & chum Charlie Solley volunteered for the navy, lying about his age, and for his pains became an airframe fitter on Swordfish, on an Escort Carrier on the Murmansk convoys.
He related one day that the windchill was such that the engine had to be started on the way up on the lift, if it reached deck level without running, no chance, back down again...
He then went onto Follands, then Hawkers / BAe, most of his career as an inspector ( was chief inspector on the first export Hunters to Chile )retiring as a draughtsman on the Harrier - so Charlie began and ended his career with Pegasus engines.
Of course, any mention of the Taranto raid should include the input of then Spitfire recce' pilot Adrian ( ? ) Warburton, who risked his neck repeatedly to get decent shots, a habit of his.
Unfortunately this habit didn't work so well when he was posted to overfly Nazi Germany - a great though sad story ( particularly of his girlfriend afterwards ) largely unknown by the public, though there was a film starring Alec Guiness which seemed based upon him.