As the wind and tensions rise and old resentments are dredged from the depths, the crew of the Violet must outwit both the sea and a bigger and far better equipped rival vessel.
In the end, Boaty McBoatface gained 124,000 votes, four times as many as its nearest rival, and the vessel's fate looked set.
Leave campaign fishing vessels and rival remain inflatables weaved in and out of the mother ships in sometimes reckless manoeuvres, but it was a culture war as much as a naval one.
Resistance to phages may confer a competitive advantage to X. albilineans cohabiting in sugarcane xylem vessels with rival bacteria that might produce phages.
By the Warring States period (475 221 bce), lacquerwork had developed into a major industry; and, being approximately 10 times more costly than their bronze equivalents, lacquer vessels came to rival bronzes as the most esteemed medium for providing offerings in ancestral ceremonies among the wealthy aristocracy.
With its major rival acquiring so many modern vessels, Chile wanted to respond as early as February 1906, but the country's naval plans were delayed by a financial depression in 1907 brought on by a drastic fall in the nitrate market and by a major earthquake in 1908.
Chinese bronze ritual vessels.
Coastguards are under the jurisdiction of rival governments, and have just three vessels to patrol the vast shoreline from which most migrant boats to Italy leave.
Higher flows promoted barrier function and increased longevity; at the highest flows, the barrier function rivaled that observed in vivo, and all vessels survived to day 14.
According to evidence gleaned by Der Spiegel magazine, Germany has become the world's top provider of luxury motor vessels for the ultra-rich, outstripping rival concerns in the Netherlands and Italy.
