Why the Swordfish remained successful through WWII

Why was the Swordfish so successful against warships?

It combined numbers, reliability, heavy useful load, low-speed carrier handling, and continuous wartime availability, allowing it to exploit many different opportunities.

The audience asks why Swordfish became so successful against warships. Numbers and persistence mattered: the type was present from the beginning to the end of the war and repeatedly exploited moments when enemy defences were weak. Its engine was not inherently feeble, since the Pegasus was a strong contemporary powerplant when the aircraft was designed in 1933. High lift, rugged construction, and reliability let the Swordfish operate from small decks and keep returning to varied missions. Its wartime reputation therefore rests on usable capability over time rather than judging a 1933 design by later fighter speeds.