HMS Inglefield (D02)
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HMS Inglefield
HMS Inglefield (D02), named for Captain John Nicholson Inglefield (1748–1828) and his son Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood Inglefield (1783–1848), was an I-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by Cammel Laird and Company at Birkenhead on 29 April 1936, launched on 15 October 1936 and commissioned on 25 June 1937.
Inglefield attacked and sank the enemy German submarines U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers Ivanhoe and Intrepid and U-63 in the North Sea while in company with the destroyer Imogen and the submarine Narwhal on 25 February 1940, and participated in the pursuit and destruction of the enemy German battleship Bismarck in May 1941. HMS Inglefield was struck by a glider bomb launched by a German Hs-293 airplane and sank off the Anzio beachhead in western Italy on 25 February 1944.
See HMS Inglefield for other ships of this name.