HMS SURPRISE introduction

This is my first ever fanfiction that I wrote out by hand each night before going to bed several years ago. To me this is genuine fanfiction in that I have just taken any and all characters I like and just have them doing stuff that I want them to do. It is not researched, there is no chapter outline - the story goes where ever it likes. That being said when I typed it up I cleaned up the grammar, spelling and I used a thesaurus so now every third word isn't suddenly :) and a fun plot is developing, in a way, and as I reread in preparation of posting it I want to continue it on to a conclusion (any ideas/requests welcome)

suspend disbelief - now

and read on...