Rambai muchinyora ndima ino - Chikwata ichi chakawana mukurumbira wekutanga nekubatanidzwa muHondo yeTaranto muna 1940, apo Hondo yeItaly yeHondo muchiteshi cheTaranto yakatsvaga; iyo yakatsanangurwa zvakare kushandiswa kwesimba remhepo kubva mugungwa. Ndege yomukuru mukuru yakanga yarasika, pasinei nokuparadzwa kwehafu yezvikepe zveItaly. Muna March 1941, chikwata ichi chakarwa muhondo yeCape Matapan
. The squadron re-akashongedzerwa muna August 1941, aine musanganiswa Swordfish uye Fairey Albacore ndege, kushanda kubva kumahombekombe nezvigadziko kutsigira North African mushandirapamwe.