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	Weather Doctor's Weather People and History: The Weather Legacy of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort
		Francis Beaufort was born in 1774, in County Meath, Ireland, the son of the Reverend Daniel Augustus Beaufort, the Rector of Navan.
		Francis Beaufort would never again return to active sea duty although he would remain in the British Navy until he was 81.
		In 1829, Beaufort was appointed Hydrographer to the Admiralty.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/history/beaufort.htm (1395 words)

	Francis Beaufort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Francis Beaufort (May 7, 1774- December 17, 1857) was a British naval officer and hydrographer and was born in Ireland.
		Beaufort altered the Vigenère cipher, by reversing the cipher alphabet; the resulting variant is named after him.
		Beaufort gave enthusiastic support to his friend, the Royal Astronomer and noted mathematician George Airy in achieving a historic period of measurements by the Greenwich and Good Hope observatories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Beaufort (829 words)

	Beaufort scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure for the intensity of the wind based mainly on sea-state or wave conditions.
		The scale was adapted to non-naval use from the 1850s, with the Beaufort numbers being tied to cup anemometer rotations.
		Taiwan uses the Beaufort scale extended in 1944 with Forces 13-17 to better represent the wind caused by typhoons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaufort_scale (472 words)

	Met Office: The Beaufort scale
		Francis Beaufort was born in Ireland in 1774, and went to sea in 1787.
		Francis Beaufort devised his scale of wind force in 1805, when serving aboard HMS Woolwich, and first mentioned it in his private log on 13 January 1806, stating that he would "hereafter estimate the force of the wind according to the following scale"
		Beaufort's scale of wind force was revised in 1874 to reflect changes in the rig of warships, and expanded two decades later to include particulars of the sail required by fishing smacks.
	www.met-office.gov.uk /education/secondary/students/beaufort.html (1489 words)

	Business Fresh : Article 'Henry Cardinal Beaufort'
		Beaufort continued to be active in English politics for years, fighting with the other powerful advisors to the king and always managing to extricate himself from the snares they set for him.
		Between 1411 and 1413 Bishop Beaufort was in political disgrace for siding with his nephew, the Prince of Wales, against the king, but then when Henry IV died and the prince became Henry V of England, he made his uncle Chancellor again; however, Beaufort resigned the position in 1417.
		Henry Beaufort, the second son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford, was born in Anjou (France) in about 1374 and educated for a career in the Church.
	www.business-fresh.net /DisplayArticle92255.html (1516 words)

	Beaufort wind scale
		FRANCIS BEAUFORT was born, the middle child of seven, to an Irish family in County Meath in 1774.
		Beaufort spent the second half of his career as hydrographer to the Admiralty, the period regarded as the high noon of hydrography.
		All Francis took from his father was the ability to respond to new situations, a vast curiosity-and a profound love of physical observation.
	www.schoonerman.com /sailingterms/beaufort_wind_scale.htm (2561 words)

	Admiral Francis Beaufort
		Beaufort invented the Beaufort Scale in 1806, and used it from then onwards, the Royal Navy then adopted his method in 1838, although over the next hundred years the Beaufort scale was slightly adapted it is still based around Francis Beaufort's concept.
		Francis Beaufort was born in 1774 in County Meath, Ireland and began his nautical career at 13 as a cabin boy in the Navy.
		Whilst on assignment in 1812, which was a combined hydro graphic study and patrol mission against the pirates operating out of the Levant the mission came under attack and Beaufort got hit in the groin by sniper fire, leaving him with a fractured hip.
	www.r-p-r.co.uk /admiral_francis_beaufort.htm (262 words)

	BEAUFORT
		Beaufort, an individual Irishman born when we had no navy of our own and were a dependent province of another state, made a contribution of unsurpassed importance to the development of understanding of the sea.
		Beaufort’s insistence on objective accuracy (and perhaps his Irish background?) led to his absolute refusal to allow hydrographic expeditions to be used for the imperialistic purpose of ‘showing the flag’.
		Beaufort’s scale culminates in a Force 12 hurricane ‘which no canvas can withstand,’ when the speed of the wind is above 63 knots and the ‘air is filled with foam and spray: sea completely white with driving spray; visibility very seriously affected’.
	www.mii.connect.ie /history/beaufort/beaufort.html (1441 words)

	Beaufort's Scale, Alaska Science Forum
		Beaufort was a rising star in the Admiralty, where he eventually became known to history as Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, the man who invented the scale of wind velocities.
		Captain Francis Beaufort wasn't on the 1826 British expedition that identified the sea to the north of Alaska and western Canada given his name.
		Beaufort was a clever young commander in 1805, when he devised his scale.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF9/911.html (747 words)

	Statesmen
		Rear-Admiral, Sir Francis Beaufort, Knight Commander of the Bath, was born in Ireland in 1744.
		Beaufort is said to have had an illustrious career on the seas and by 1800 had risen to the rank of Commander.
		In the summer of 1805 Commander Beaufort was appointed to the command of the Woolwich, a 44 gun man-of-war.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/statesmen.htm (1443 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - wind scale
		The Beaufort Scale is a system of recording wind velocity (speed) devised in 1806 by Francis Beaufort (1774–1857).
		The Beaufort wind scale is used by mariners and meteorologists to indicate wind velocity.
		It was devised in 1805 by the Irish hydrographer Francis...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /wind+scale.html (141 words)

	Beaufort scale on Encyclopedia.com
		BEAUFORT SCALE [Beaufort scale] a scale of wind velocity devised (c.1805) by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort of the British navy.
		An adaptation of Beaufort's scale is used by the U.S. National Weather Service; it employs a scale from 0 to 12, representing calm, light air, light breeze, gentle breeze, moderate breeze, fresh breeze, strong breeze, moderate gale, fresh gale, strong gale, whole gale, storm, hurricane.
		Beaufort's original scale was later correlated to wind speed in two different ways.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Beaufsc.asp (499 words)

	Walkabout - Beaufort
		Beaufort is located on the Western Highway, 158 km north-west of Melbourne, between Ballarat and Ararat.
		Beaufort is quite an historic town but there is little information that is readily available on the town's heritage buildings.
		Radical activist, labour leader and poet, Bernard O'Dowd was born at Beaufort in 1866, although his attempts to set up a local school failed as his free-thinking, skeptical attitude to conventional religiosity and wayward spiritualism were unpopular.
	www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/VICBeaufort.shtml (1364 words)

	Beaufort link with 'the great Maria'
		The other big advantage enjoyed by the Beaufort Scale was that its originator in due course became Hydrographer to the Royal Navy, and was thus in a position, in December 1838, to ensure that his scale became the standard measure of wind strength on all British naval vessels.
		Beaufort was a little younger than Maria Edgeworth, having been born in Navan in 1774.
		The usefulness of Beaufort’s Scale lay in the fact that it assessed the force of the wind, and not its speed - the measurement of the latter being virtually impossible at the time with any accuracy.
	www.universityscience.ie /pages/scimat_Beaufort_link.php (454 words)

	JMR: Journal for Maritime Research: maritime history, naval history and contemporary issues
		Francis Beaufort, in common with most naval officers who served in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, sought the quick promotion, fame, glory and wealth that befell the lot of only a select few of his profession.
		Beaufort formalized the scale and adapted it by using the amount of sail carried by a man-of war to describe the force of the wind.
		Beaufort was not only a very competent and widely-travelled seaman and naval officer, he was also a scientist, an author and the navy’s most important hydrographer.
	www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk /server?show=conJmrBookReview.65&outputFormat=print (802 words)

	A Wind Scale: Beaufort
		The scale is named after its creator, Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort of the British Navy, who developed it in the early 1800's.
		The Beaufort Wind Scale categorizes various wind speeds up to hurricane strength (74 miles per hour) and is used in weather forecasting.
		A Beaufort Number (BN) of "0" means that the wind is blowing at less than one mile per hour.
	ks.essortment.com /beaufortwindsc_rmpd.htm (776 words)

	Sir Francis Beaufort
		Admiral Beaufort is most famous for having established the Beaufort Scale of wind velocity in 1806.
		The Beaufort Scale runs from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane) and is still the uniform maritime standard.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/People/beaufort.html (33 words)

	Beaufort scale
		It was introducedin 1806 by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) of the British navy to...
		The Beaufort Scale -- originally developed by Sir Francis Beaufort in 1805...A description of the Beaufort Scale for use on the open sea can be found at:...
		Beaufort wind speed scale in m/sec, knots, km/hr and mph with terms and indicationson land and at sea.
	www.truecooking.com /beaufort-scale.html (845 words)

	BEAUFORT RANGE: locals remembered on the east coast peaks
		All the peaks on the Beaufort Range are accessible as day trips in both summer and winter; however, access can be restricted by logging activity as most of the roads are privately owned by logging companies.
		The highest mountain in the Beaufort Range is Mount Joan (1,557m) and is located towards the southern end of the range.
		Many of his days are spent hiking in the Beauforts or working on the access trails.
	members.shaw.ca /beyondnootka/articles/beaufort.html (1009 words)

	Natural History: Defining the Wind: the Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
		The remarkable life of Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), one of the generation of polymaths who ushered in a golden age of natural history, in Victorian England, seems the perfect subject for a modern biographer.
		Beaufort was on friendly terms with Captain William Bligh, of Bounty fame, and with Captain Robert Fitzroy of the Beagle, as he was with most of the scientific luminaries of the age.
		Although it's doubtful that Beaufort ever saw that table (it appeared in a text, Practical Navigation, that was never published), Dalrymple's work anticipated Beaufort's first scale, with its descriptive phrases based on the number of sails a standard three-masted vessel could keep aloft in a particular wind.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_113/ai_n6358708 (813 words)

	Beaufort wind scales
		The best known scale for wind speed is that of Sir Francis Beaufort (1774–1857), an admiral in the British navy who drew up the first version in 1806.
		Beaufort's original scale (from 1 to 12) was made for use in the open sea and was based upon the amount of sail a man-of-war could carry (Force 12 was a wind “no canvas could withstand”).
		The Beaufort scale was adopted by the admiralty in 1838 and by the International Meteorological Committee in 1874.
	www.sizes.com /natural/beaufort.htm (667 words)

	BEAUFORT SCALE - Online Information article about BEAUFORT SCALE
		Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) in 1805, to indicate the strength of the See also:
		Office on the relation between the estimates of wind-force according to Beaufort's scale and the velocities recorded by anemometers belonging to the office, from which the following table is taken: Beaufort scale.
		BEAUFORT SCALE - Online Information article about BEAUFORT SCALE
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BEAUFORT_SCALE.html (289 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort: Books
		Admiral Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) is best known for having his name given to the universal scale that measures the strength of wind.
		This lasting legacy of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort is only part of his overall contribution to the world of the mariner, scientist and antiquarian.
		Francis Beaufort had a central role in these advances.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747264856 (1279 words)

	The Journal of Michigan Fellows - Volume 13, No. 2 - Spring 2003
		To understand the scale and its history, of course, I've researched, among other things, Sir Francis Beaufort, the general man of science for whom the scale is named.
		Instead of a sailor writing that the wind blew "a light breeze," for example, which was open to interpretation, Beaufort devised a scale that gave that sailor something according to which he could measure-and quantify-his observation.
		As it has come down to us (you can find it in many dictionaries), the Beaufort Scale definition of "light breeze," which is number 2 on the scale, is "wind felt on face; leaves rustle; ordinary vane moved by wind." Each of the 13 designations of the scale has an equally lovely—and simple description.
	www.umich.edu /~mjfellow/journal/spring03/fellowships.html (652 words)

	No Mercy for St. Francis - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Francis spokeswoman Shirley Freyer insisted that Mercy's withdrawal would not spell the end for the 137-year-old system operated by the Sisters of St. Francis, whose motherhouse is in Millvale.
		Francis officials, who have projected an additional $27 million in losses for the fiscal year that ended in June, yesterday remained optimistic about the system's future.
		The decision, which Mercy said was based on St. Francis' weak finances, capped a six-month courtship sought by St. Francis, whose top executive said in August that finding a financial partner was crucial to its survival.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/clendar/s_15072.html (982 words)

	Newsflash
		Francis Beaufort, Filippo Brunelleschi, Taccola (Mariano di lacopo) and Francesco di Giorgio have not been chosen arbitrarily as names for the new built trailing suction hopper dredgers in the fleet of the Jan De Nul Group.
		Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish hydrographer from the 19th century and Filippo Brunelleschi was an important Italian architect from the 15th century.
		That is th reason why their names have been chosen by Jan De Nul to dress the bow of the newly built ships, all characteristic for innovative technology.
	www.jandenul.com /newsitems/NF200306.asp (293 words)

	WaveLength Magazine - June/July 1996 Issue
		In 1805, British Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort devised a method for measuring wind speed by carefully watching the effect of the wind on the ocean waves and ships' sails.
		Even after the invention of the anemometer in the early 1900s, the Beaufort family clung steadfastly to the traditions of their patriarch and were content to bask in the limelight of his fame.
		Stanley, the last direct descendent of Sir Francis, was born in 1937.
	www.wavelengthmagazine.com /1996/jj96beaufort.php (588 words)

	The Beaufort Scale
		In 1805, a British Naval officer called Francis Beaufort introduced a scale from 0 -12 for measuring the speed of the wind at sea.
		Beaufort developed the scale by matching the customs for setting a ship's sails with the speed and strength of the wind.
		The difference between true and magnetic north is called "magnetic variation" and its value can be found in the orientation panel or margin of an Ordance Survey map
	www.teachingideas.co.uk /geography/beaufort.htm (494 words)

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		(SIR) Francis Beaufort was a square-rig-ship driver in His or Her Majesty's Royal Navy, a Rear Admiral and Hydrographer to the Royal Navy.
		FRANCIS BEAUFORT'S SCALE * * * * * ************************************************************* *************************************************************** Mr.
		Beaufort's scale and the behavior of the selected members of the biosphere.
	www.vcrlter.virginia.edu /publications/ced/ced/23 (1824 words)

	BEAUFORT.txt
		Virtually self educated, Francis Beaufort left school at 14 eventually became Hydrographer of the Navy after adventurous service in the Napoleonic Wars.
		Born in 1781 Spinster 022,97,122-3 BEAUFORT Mary 023,112 BEAUFORT Rosalind Elizborn 1820 226,325,333-4 BEAUFORT Sir Francis Admiral 013-14,23-6 BEAUFORT Sophia born 1819 226 BEAUFORT William Lewiselder son born 1771 021-2,50-1,86 BEAUFORT William Morriborn 1823 226,282-3,327-8 BECHER A.B. Rear Admiral editor of "Nautical Mag." 146,247-8,282-3 BEECHEY Fredk.
		"BEAUFORT of The Admiralty" The Life of Sir Francis Beaufort 1774- 1857 by Alfred Friendly 1977.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/Indexes/BEAUFORT.txt (832 words)

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