sea mile

I was about a sea mile short of my estimated point.

She was now leading them by a quarter of a sea mile.

With a range of 18 sea miles, the light flashes once every five seconds.

It has sailed around the world and can log 200 sea miles in a day.

After 53 years and more than half a million sea miles, Blake's wild voyage is over.

From five hundred sea miles away, they'll reach their target coordinates in less than fifteen minutes.

Sound-propagation conditions had improved in the last few tens of sea miles.

"These storms spread out from their centre for hundreds of sea miles.

Belle Isle is just about 100 sea miles ahead.

And it takes three sea miles to stop this baby with engines full astern."

So a 60-ship convoy was about 6 sea miles broad and a good two miles deep.

Fourteen minutes of latitude, so it was fourteen sea miles.

We came all the way from Osaka - three-hundred-odd sea miles in forty hours.

It developed from the sea mile and the related geographical mile.

The sea mile is an ambiguous unit, with the following possible meanings:

Every sea mile increased the likelihood of the engine quitting or the boat sinking.

He was a keen traveller and up to 1918 had covered 450,000 sea miles, which included 31 times across the Equator.

That cargo plane of yours has a range of three thousand, six hundred sea miles.

They stayed away from Beagle Gulf by 3000 sea miles and did not know of its existence.

These showed an overall size for the landmass from southto north of five sea miles.

"Grand Glorietta is two hundred and thirty sea miles from here.

They'd splash into the sea miles away, harmlessly unless some fish picked the wrong moment to surface for a gulp of air.

Our heading was 142 and the oil rig was four sea miles distant, dead on our course.

"Two sea miles, no more than that.

It was lost at night during the 1979 Parmelia Race only a few sea miles from the finish line.