Ships
- USS Abbot (DD-629) Commanding officer from 14 August 1944 · In command at decommissioning, 21 May 1946
Francis Walford Ingling was the Naval Academy class of 1937, from Cleveland. One account gives his birth as 1912. Another gives 10 December 1913. The name aboard Abbot was Waffles.
He relieved Marshall Edgar Dornin on 14 August 1944, as a lieutenant commander. On 20 July 1945 he was promoted to commander, still in Abbot. He had her through decommissioning at San Diego on 21 May 1946.
After the war he taught seamanship and navigation at the Naval Academy. By 1953 he commanded the destroyer Jarvis (DD-799). Early in 1959 he was the first commanding officer of the Nuclear Weapons Training Center at Norfolk. He died in Virginia Beach on 20 March 1990, at seventy-seven. His wife, Rebecca Thornton Ingling, died on 6 January 1996, at eighty-two.