Storm Force Ten through endless line-up changes) ringing out on this overlooked album. A shame they should make their most daring music just as punk torched the landscape." Storm Force Ten Storm Force Ten is an album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span, the band's 10th effort, released in 1977. Until their 2013 album "Wintersmith", released 36 years after "Storm Force Ten", this album was the band's last production to reach the charts, topping out at 191 on Billboard's Pop charts. After "Rocket Cottage", Bob Johnson and Peter Knight left the band. As there was still a contractual obligation, they invited Martin
Beaufort scale during the voyage of HMS "Beagle" under Captain Robert FitzRoy, later to set up the first Meteorological Office (Met Office) in Britain giving regular weather forecasts. In the early 19th century, naval officers made regular weather observations, but there was no standard scale and so they could be very subjective – one man's "stiff breeze" might be another's "soft breeze". Beaufort succeeded in standardising the scale. The initial scale of thirteen classes (zero to twelve) did not reference wind speed numbers but related qualitative wind conditions to effects on the sails of a frigate, then the main ship of the