HMS Inglefield

HMS Inglefield (I02)

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	I
Pennant:	I 02 / D02
Mod:	Flotilla leader
Built by:	Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.)
Ordered:	14 Nov, 1935
Laid down:	29 Apr, 1936
Launched:	15 Oct, 1936
Commissioned:	25 Jun, 1937
Complement:	145
Lost:	25 Feb, 1944 by German aircraft-launched, Hs.293 Sunk radio controlled glider bomb off Anzio.

History:	14 Oct, 1939 The German submarine U-45 was sunk south-west of Ireland, in position 50.58N, 12.57W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Inglefield, HMS Ivanhoe and HMS Intrepid. 20 Nov, 1939 The German submarine U-18 attacks the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Inglefield off Rattray Head with a spread of torpedoes but they miss their intended target. 25 Feb, 1940 The German submarine U-63 tried to attack convoy HN-14, in doing so she was sighted by the British submarine HMS Narwhal. The escorting destroyers HMS Escort, HMS Inglefield and HMS Imogen were warned. They located, attacked and sank U-63 with depth charges south east of the Shetland Islands.