HMS Inglefield (D02)

History
HMS Inglefield, with HMS Hood in the background
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Inglefield
Namesake:	Admiral Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield
Ordered:	14 November 1935
Builder:	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down:	29 April 1936
Launched:	15 October 1936
Commissioned:	25 June 1937
Identification:	Pennant number: D02/I02
Motto:	The sun my compass
Honours and awards:	Atlantic 1939-43, North Sea 1940, Norway 1940-42, Bismarck (Action) 1941, Malta Convoys 1942, Arctic 1942-43, Sicily 1943, Salerno 1943 Mediterranean 1944, Anzio 1944
Fate:	Sunk by German Hs 293 glide bomb off Anzio 25 February 1944
Badge:	On a Field White, a double headed eagle displayed per pale Blue and Red (From the crest of Admiral Inglefield)
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	I-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,544 long tons (1,569 t) (standard) 2,081 long tons (2,114 t) (deep load)
Length:	337 ft (102.7 m)
Beam:	34 ft (10.4 m)
Draught:	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power:	38,000 shp (28,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, Parsons geared steam turbines 3 Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	5,530 nmi (10,240 km; 6,360 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	175
Sensors and processing systems:	ASDIC
Armament:	5 × 1 - 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns 2 × 4 - .50 cal machine guns 2 × 5 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers
Service record
Operations:	Battle of Greece (1941) Destruction of Bismarck (1941) Operation Shingle (1944)
Victories:	Sank U-45 (1939) and U-63 (1940)

HMS Inglefield was an I-class destroyer leader built for the Royal Navy that served during World War II. She was the navy's last purpose-built flotilla leader. She was named after the 19th century Admiral Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-1894), and is so far the only warship to carry the name of that seafaring family. In May 1940, her pennant number was changed to I02.

On the outbreak of war, Inglefield was deployed as the leader of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet, and was based at Malta. However, she was transferred to the Home Fleet before the end of September 1939 to patrol the Western Approaches. In this rôle, she escorted HM aircraft carrier Courageous, but was answering a distress signal from SS Kafirstan when Courageous was attacked and sunk. Inglefield searched in vain for the U-boat U-83 that sank the Courageous. One month later, Inglefield, along with her sister-ships HMS Ivanhoe and HMS Intrepid, sank U-boat U-45 off the southwest coast of Ireland. She again came under attack from German U-boats when U-18 fired numerous torpedoes at her; they all missed. A few days after that last attack, she was required to tow the submarine HMS Triad back to Stavanger, after she was damaged while on patrol in the North Sea. She sank another German U-boat, U-63, in early 1940 with the help of HMS Imogen and HMS Narwhal; 24 Germans were rescued.

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