Radar given highest priority

15th October 1940: Churchill sets out his priorities for scientific development and production for 'the winning of the war and our future strategy'

The Italian destroyer ARTIGLIERE is finished off with a torpedo from HMS York on the 12th October. She had been taken in tow after the night action earlier but then abandoned.

In the early hours of the 12th October, the Royal Navy had won a small but significant battle in an exchange with the Italian Navy. Three Italian fast torpedo destroyers had attemp…