Trapped in the sunken HMS Umpire

19th July 1941: Edward Young describes the aftermath of a terrible accident, as water rises around the survivors in the dark

The newly completed HMS Umpire collided with an Armed Trawler and sank.

The newly built submarine HMS Umpire was on her way north out of Sheerness for her sea trials. She was proceeding on the surface with an outbound convoy when she was in collision with a trawler coming inbound - an accident partly attributable to the fact that all the ships were in d…