Pursuing German Battleships
Inglefield was deployed to the North Sea with HMS Zulu to escort the battleships HMS Renown and HMS Repulse in an unsuccessful operation to seek and destroy the German warship Scharnhorst. It was believed that she was the pocket battleship Deutschland, and a massive naval effort by the Royal Navy failed to stop her from returning to a German port.
Perhaps her most famous rôle was in May 1941 when she served as part of the escort for HMS King George V and HMS Rodney in the pursuit and destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.
In August, she was present at Scapa Flow for a visit by King George VI, and even embarked the King for review of anchorage and then for return passage to the mainland on 9 August.
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