Editing HMS Inglefield (section)

==Anti-submarine action==
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 the [[aircraft carrier]] {{HMS|Courageous|50|2}}, but was answering a distress signal from {{SS|Kafirstan}} when ''Courageous'' was attacked and sunk. ''Inglefield'' searched in vain for the [[U-boat]] {{GS|U-29|1936|2}} that sank the carrier. One month later, ''Inglefield'', along with her sister ships {{HMS|Ivanhoe|D16|2}} and {{HMS|Intrepid|D10|2}}, sank U-boat {{GS|U-45|1938|2}} off the southwest coast of [[Ireland]]. She again came under attack from Nazi U-boats when {{GS|U-18|1936|2}} fired numerous torpedoes at her; they all missed. A few days after that last attack, the ship was required to tow the submarine {{HMS|Triad|N53|6}} back to [[Stavanger]], after she was damaged while on patrol in the [[North Sea]]. Inglefield sank another German U-boat, {{GS|U-63|1939|2}}, in early 1940 with the help of her sister {{HMS|Imogen|D44|2}} and the submarine {{HMS|Narwhal|N45|2}}; 24 Germans were rescued.