HMS Inglefield (D-02), named for Captain John Nicholson Inglefield (1748-1828) and his son Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood Inglefield (1783-1848), was an I class destroyer laid down by Cammel Laird and Company at Birkenhead on 29 April1936, launched on 15 October 1936 and commissioned on 25 June1937. Inglefield attacked and sank the enemy German submarines U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October1939 in company with the destroyers HMS Ivanhoe and HMS Intrepid and U-63 in the North Sea while in company with the destroyer HMS Imogen and the submarineHMS Narwhal on 25 February1940, and participated in the pursuit and destruction of the enemy German battleshipBismarck in May 1941. HMS Inglefield was struck by an enemy German Hs-293 aircraft launched glider bomb and sank off the Anzio beachhead in western Italy on 25 February1944.
