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Alexander Hamilton argued that while the United States could not challenge Europe 's principal maritime powers on the seas , in the event of a European war pitting France against Great Britain , a small fleet of American battleships would allow the United States to play the makeweight in the balance of power in the Western Hemisphere . Many a time he had looked over the steamer 's side during that long , lonely voyage and gazed almost wishfully into the sea , in whose embrace was rest . What is strangest is that he carries this sentiment into classical subjects , its most complete [ 57/58 ] expression being a picture in the Uffizii , of Venus rising from the sea , in which the grotesque emblems of the middle age , and a landscape full of its peculiar feeling , and even its strange draperies , powdered all over in the Gothic manner with a quaint conceit of daisies , frame a figure that reminds you of the faultless nude studies of Ingres . And we are not a court ; there is an International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea , in Hamburg , but this is established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ) which is not an IMO Convention . The procurator resided ordinarily in Caesarea on the Sea , in the praetorium of Herod ( Acts 23.35 ) , and came to Jerusalem ordinarily only on the occasion of the annual festivals , to keep order , residing in Herod 's palace . As Seattle ’ s City Cantabile Choir sings harmonies broadcast underwater through hydrophones , most of its members keep one eye focused on director Fred West and another eye focused on the sea , in the hope that their local orcas will join in the proceedings , as they ’ ve done before . Further , she asserted the right of Englishmen to sail any seas , in defiance of the Spanish claim to regard the Pacific as a mare clausum ; and she emphasized her protest by knighting Drake .