I've had a nagging question I've been wanting to ask for a while: When used against surface vessels, do dive bombers or torpedo bombers work better in destroying it?

This question can be varied; against what kind of ship, or what kind of plane, but I'll leave the ships up to you, ranging from destroyers to aircraft carriers. Let's imagine that the two planes are the TBF/D Avenger and the SBD Dauntless (You can throw in any other bomber if you want).

Which would work better, against, say, an aircraft carrier? I would still say the torpedo bomber. What perks does the dive bomber have to help destroy ships?