Sentences with phrase «nautical miles per hour»

So saying «20 knots per hour» is like saying «20 nautical miles per hour per hour»... its redundant and wrong.

«Slow steaming» — reducing speed by at least several nautical miles per hour — can slash fuel consumption and thus CO2 emissions.

For its current missions the U.S. National Science Foundation charters private research ships such as the Nathaniel B. Palmer, which can crunch through three feet of ice at three nautical miles per hour.