HMS Inglefield (D02)

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Career

Built By:	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down:	29 April 1936
Launched:	15 October 1936
Commissioned:	25 June 1937
Fate:	Sunk 25 February 1944

General Characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	1,340 tons (except Inglefield 1456 tons) (standard) 1,980 tons (full load)
Length:	323 ft (98 m) (except Inglefield 337 ft)
Beam:	33 ft
Draught:	12 ft 5 inch (13 ft 4 inch full load)
Propulsion:	Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts, 3 boilers, 34,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed:	36 knots (70 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	145
Armament:	four (Inglefield 5) 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns eight 0.5 inch (13 mm) AA machine guns 10 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, (2 x5) (8 torpedo tubes in ex "Turkish" ships) 45 depth charges.
Armour:
Aircraft:	none
Source:	Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946

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 that served during World War II.

Shortly after World War II broke out, Inglefield was assigned to escort a convoy from Pentland Firth, along with HMS Exmouth and HMS Electra. During a violent storm which lasted over 2 days, an ammunition locker on Electra's forecastle broke loose, and started sliding around the deck.

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 Hs-293 glider bomb launched by a German airplane and sank off the Anzio beachhead in western Italy on 25 February 1944.