It seems extraordinary now but back in the days of World War II, Radar was comparatively new, and not all of even the most modern and powerful warships carried it. This video tells the story of a night action between a powerful modern fleet with a battleship and eight heavy and light cruisers against a force of mostly much older ships with just three key advantages - unlike the Italians, the British had an aircraft carrier in their force, and HMS Valiant, one of the three elderly British battleships present, all laid down before World War one, had radar. The third key advantage was that the Italians were using the German "Enigma" system for their most secret transmissions, and a few days before the battle, Bletchley Park broke the Italian codes and warned the Royal Navy commander, Admiral Andrew Brown Cunningham (ABC) that the Italian fleet had sailed. To protect the biggest secret of the war, that Britain had broken the Enigma codes, the British sent a reconnaissance plane t...