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Originally Posted by snitzel
Unterseeboowaffe site uses sm = sea miles(= 1852 meters), at least so it says at the bottom of each boat page. And when comparing their values with uboat.net they are the same, so uboat.net uses nautical miles too. I hope this confuses you further  |
Hi Snitzel..... agree with VonHelsching, the therm "sea mile" is not used..... almost not yet, and from many time ago, when you read "sm" it is refering to satute miles.
In my laguge it is "millas nauticas" but some time i hear from olders crews "millas marinas" wich can be the equivalent of "sea miles" you mentioned.
As VonHelsching wrote, may be an old therm, but not used in last years, my job is to navigate from 20 years ago, and we call them "nautical miles".
So, when we read "sm' it is more common to think in statute miles, but talk about a sub, and talk about "statute miles" is an incongruence...i think so.
Due to this uncongruence....you may be right and the Unterseeboowaffe is using a wrong therm and really they are talking about nautical miles (1 minute of degree of the earth circunference at average sea level at ecuador)
But as they wrote..... sm, it is staute mile, may be they need to change it.....