torpedo-toting wellesley?

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by accident i’ve become a torpedo plane aficionado, did a swedish caproni but found out they never carried torpedos, did a torbeau and looking for torpedo colors. i’ve always liked the Vickers Wellesley because it looks like a dinky toy, another brit excuse for an airplane. then , i’m watching the war channel and in one of those interminable black and white montages of “things getting blowed up”, i could swear i see a wellesley dropping a torpedo, glide dive @ 30 degrees, there is no mistaking that goofy bird and i even saw the navigator’s geodesic window. So my question is: were my eyes just wishing to see such a vision [a pig flying?] or is this real. given the rough filming, jerky and blocked by something after the drop it was not pro film. could it have been a test? Help, i hope for some backup that this is not just a figment

onward

pete saussy

current: p2v/dp2e vc-9 drone, dornier24t swedish hijack version, wellesley torpedo ?

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I looked the Wellesley up in my RAF Book by Owen Thetford, and while there is no mention of torpedos the Wellesley did fly with 202 Group in 1941 doing shipping reconnaissance. Only 176 were built, by the start of war only 4 were in Bomber Command, which I guess means flying out of Britain. 100 were in the Middle East early in the war and were used against the Italians using bombs against land targets.

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Pic is from Profile Publication No. 256 Vickers Wellesley Variants. Caption states:

" Wellesley K7740 dropping an 18-inch torpedo with dummy warhead while undergoing trials in December 1940 at the Air Torpedo Development Unit "