10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEA MILE»
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Sea Kayaking: A Guide for
Sea Canoeists
... yd kilometre 100 000 39 370 3280 1000 1.0 0.5397 Sea Mile 185 300 73 000
6080 1853 1.853 1.0 Knot (kn) SPeed kn m/s km/h mph Nautical mile: (n mile, M, '
) Unofficial but often used (nm) US nautical mile, International mile and Sea mile
...
2
Admiralty Manual of Navigation
The sea mile The sea mile is the length of one minute of arc (!') measured along
the meridian in the latitude of the position. This is illustrated in Fig. 1-6. If M is the
place on the Earth's surface and C the centre of curvature at M, and AMB is an ...
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The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1869
In Kelly's “Cambist,” a “Geographical or Sea mile is one-third of a Sea league,
twenty Sea leagues make one degree of the Meridian.” Rees's “Encyclopedia,”
article “ Mile,” “a Geographical or Sea mile is the sixtieth part ol' 9. degree of the ...
4
Complete Powerboating Manual
A sea mile is defined as a minute of latitude (a sixtieth of a degree) measured at
the Earth's surface. This is very convenient in some respects: in particular, it
means that the latitude scale on the side of a navigational chart serves as a scale
of ...
Tim Bartlett, Simon Collis, Tony Jones, 2008
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Admiralty Manual of Seamanship
Sea Mile. A sea mile is the distance equivalent to one minute of arc measured
along the meridian at the latitude of measurement. Since the Earth is flattened at
the poles and not a true sphere, this distance is not a fixed length; it varies
between ...
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Reeds Superyacht Manual: Published in Association with ...
A sea mile is defined as being one minute of arc at the Earth's surface. As the
Earth's radius varies slightly, so does the length of a sea mile, but only by about ±
0.5%.This is small enough to ignore for practical purposes. A nautical mile (nm) is
...
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of ...
This practice of measuring a ship's rate of sailing is founded upon the following
principle: That the length of each knot is the same part of a sea mile, as half a
minute is of an hour. Therefore the length of a knot ought to be Ar of a sea mile ;
but ...
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of ...
This practice of measuring a ship's rate of sailing, is founded upon the following
principle — that the length of each knot is the same part of a sea mile, as half a
minute is of an hour. Therefore the length of a knot ought to be j-fa of a sea mile ...
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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 18, 1980:
... 1979, prepared in the Legal Bureau with the assistance of a Canadian
hydrographie expert, discusses the terms "nautical mile" and "sea mile" in the
context of the Law of the Sea Conference Negotiating Text : We agree that the
term nautical ...
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The improved practical navigator, revised by T. Kirby
of a sea mile ; but by various admeasurements it has been found that the length
of a sea mile is about 6080 feet ; hence the length of a knot ought to be 50 feet 8
inches ; but, as it is most advisable to have the reckoning ahead of the ship, ...
Nathaniel Bowditch, Thomas Kirby (teacher of mathematics), 1809
