Some articles on knots:
... feature being a specified top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h) and 4 funnels, although the funnel spacings differed between ships ... one third more than the preceding A class, giving an increase in speed of 3 knots (5.6 km/h) over the "27 knotters" ... shaft horsepower (6,700 kW) for 26.75 knots (49.54 km/h) to 31 knots (57 km/h) ...
... The Pheasant had a top speed of 20 knots - their prey, the German U-Boats, could only manage 18 knots (33 km/h) on the surface and no more than 8 knots (15 km/h) submerged ...
... This would have given the two ships a top speed of 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h 30.5 mph). 76,634 shaft horsepower (57,146 kW), but a top speed of 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h 29.3 mph) ... shp (60,393 kW) and a top speed of 26.4 knots (48.9 km/h 30.4 mph) ...
794 kW (1,065 ehp) each Performance Never exceed speed 498 km/h (269 knots, 309 mph) Maximum speed 385 km/h (208 knots, 239 mph) Cruise speed 360 km/h (194 knots ...
... average) to have reached 90 knots (45 m/s) ... Unofficial records of gusts in excess of 130 knots (67 m/s) were recorded in Shetland, while Statfjord-B in the North Sea recorded wind gusts in excess of 145 knots (75 m/s) ...
Famous quotes containing the word knots:
“The Chief Defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of String.
At last he swallowed some which tied
Itself in ugly Knots inside.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
“One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)