Yeah, but would they have stood up to carrier ops?
Look at the Seafire, in the air it was all but unbeatable but it was plagued with deck accidents which were mostly due to its weak and narrow undercarriage (which had been beefed up from the original Spitfire's). Several sources quote 20 lost in deck accidents for every single aircraft lost to enemy action. For sustained carrier ops an aircraft had to trade off a little perfomance in return for strong, and wide, landing gear, like the Hellcat.
Off hand, I cannot think of any aircraft that was originally designed for land use becoming a totally successful carrier aircraft, can you?
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