HMS Emerald- Into the Depths

Chapter One: The Discovery

The Seas seemed unforgiving on the Cold Tuesday morning that greeted Old Man Jenkins as he stared at the horizon watching all the little sail boats bobbing up and down with each wave that crashed against their hulls, Old man Jenkins then turns his attention to the Large Research Vessel sat a few miles of the Northern Scottish Coast, Old Man Jenkins then picks up the Binoculars that were placed to the left of him on the same Bench he had sat on every morning since the end of 1945, The binoculars felt colder than usual, Old Man Jenkins notices this and raises his eyebrows, he then shrugs and brings them up in an arch to his face, Old Man Jenkins then gazed through his binoculars as he zoomed in on the hull of the Research ship, scanning her hull Old Man Jenkins sees the name "Emerald" printed in large letters on the ships bow, Old Man Jenkins hadn't seen that name since the 16th of October 1945, Old Man Jenkins dropped the binoculars and re-attaches his prosthetic leg and uses his crutch to get up, he the hobbles over to the phone and dials a number for the Admiralty in Portsmouth.

Meanwhile on the Research ship, Professor Harris and his dive team are gearing up to dive a historic wreck, one that is scarlessly ever mentioned because of the wrecks older more extravagant sister, the name of this wreck was "HMS Emerald" the only sister of HMS Hood. The Professor and his team head below decks to the dive room to get on their gear for the dive, once they were ready they headed to the lowest part of the Vessel and began the dive, for 5 minutes they swam towards the sea bed before they finally saw the golden sand and brown mud of the Atlantic sea floor, The dive team then swam along a large chain attached to an anchor the size of a one and a half story house, the team took pictures and moved on along the chain, after a few minutes of swimming a shape appeared looming over the divers, as the Professor raised his head his eyes widened, the Hull had the unmistakable "BB-66" printed on her bow, a number that belonged to the WWII Warship "HMS Emerald". The only problem the dive team had with the wreck was that there was no signs of damage all along her 860ft long hull, but when the dive team swam up towards the Citadel they all saw a monstrous hole that seemed to have penetrated the area that would have been her bridge, more picture documentation of the hull took place then the divers returned to the surface and by extension the Research Vessel, as Professor Harris took off his gear, a young woman in her twenties asked "any luck professor?", the professor looked at the young lady and smiled and nodded, "come sit Evelynn, let me recount what we saw along with some picture evidence", just as the young lady sat next the professor the sound of a Horn filled the air with the crew immediately noticing that is wasn't their horn making that noise, then a monstrous Royal Navy Frigate sailed past the Emerald's stern, as the crew of the Emerald gawked at the sheer size of the Warship two RHIB's came alongside the Emerald and boarded her.