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 Beaufort scale The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale. The scale was devised in 1805 by the Irish hydrographer Francis Beaufort (later Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort), a Royal Navy officer, while serving on HMS "Woolwich". The scale that carries Beaufort's name had a long and complex evolution from the previous work of others (including Daniel Defoe the century before) to when Beaufort was Hydrographer of the Navy in the 1830s when it was adopted officially and first used