How smoke helped destroyers face an Italian battleship

A Tribal-class destroyer faced an Italian battleship with two other destroyers in support. Their heavy smoke kept the battleship from seeing clearly enough to use its greater firepower effectively. After the featured ship expended her torpedoes, the story has the crew firing whatever remained, including tins of baked beans. The baked beans become a joke about psychological warfare, while the encounter itself shows how concealment and torpedo attacks could help light forces survive a severe gunpower disadvantage.