de Havilland Sea Hornet in maritime strike role?

[seadude]

Not sure where to put this topic. Sorry if its in the wrong spot.

Over on the Secret Projects Forum, someone had mentioned in an old (but now gravedug) Project Habakkuk thread that maybe it could have been possible for the Habakkuk to have Sea Hornet aircraft on it.
Well, I read the Wikipedia article about the de Havilland Hornet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Hornet
............and I didn't see anything that mentions that the aircraft was considered or designed for maritime strike such as antishipping or antisubmarine. From what I've read, the Hornet was mostly a fighter aircraft.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that some designer or engineer long, long ago wasn't considering designing the Hornet for maritime strike roles/missions.
So my question is this: Was there any possible consideration to making the Hornet aircraft designed for maritime strike roles/missions? Could it have carried torpedoes at all?

[jcf]

The Hornet was designed with a secondary strike role, it was provisioned to carry either two 1,000lb bombs or eight 60lb rocket projectiles.
The Sea Hornet retained the strike capability, so there's not really anything that would prevent it being used in the maritime strike role. Adding
torpedo capability wouldn't be much different than when it was added to the Mosquito.

[The Wooksta!]

It was trialled with the post-war version of Highball, code named Card.  Two per aircraft and mounted in a removable crate.  There's no photos, just a rough sketch in the Tony Buttler book on the Hornet.

The Sea Mosquito was also trialed with Highball, two of the early ones were used by MAEE in the post war period, along with an FB.6 and the two surviving (in the UK) Highball B.IVs.

I did a Sea Hornet TF.23 some years back from a Skybirds Hornet.