In honor of that noble sea battle, this week's contest features four works of historical fiction.
On 4 October the Dutch launched legal proceedings against Russia, hoping to go to the international tribunal for the law of the sea, based in Hamburg, to contest the manner by which Russian border guards seized the Arctic Sunrise in international waters.
For all its echoes of the 1800s, not to mention the cold war, the showdown in the South China Sea augurs a new type of maritime conflict — one that is playing out from the Mediterranean Sea to the Arctic Ocean, where fuel-hungry economic powers, newly accessible undersea energy riches and even changes in the earth's climate are conspiring to create a 21st-century contest for the seas.
For all of the military bluster encircling the South and East China Seas, this is an economic contest.
To view: The winners of Marine Photobank's Ocean in Focus photo contest which honors images that "illuminate the many threats facing the seas".
Her birth and her contest with Poseidon, the sea god, for the suzerainty of the city were depicted on the pediments of the Parthenon, and the great festival of the Panathenaea, in July, was a celebration of her birthday.
It was a gold ship whose translucency Revealed some treasures profane hands at sea (disgust, hate and neurosis) could contest.
Elsewhere, they undertook to reassert Egyptian command of the Red Sea, which the Portuguese had begun to contest during the early 16th century.
Each year on Bunning Day, there's not only a big parade but also a recitation by the winner of the annual essay contest honoring Cornelius Bunning, the sea captain who (at least in this novel) invented the doughnut hole.
When it comes to a beauty contest, the African manatee, a bloated sea cow that grazes the coastal waters off west Africa, will never win any prizes.
